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On 07/30/2013 12:39 AM, José Valim wrote:<br>
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href="http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#halt-2">According to
the documentation</a>, erlang:halt/2 should flush unless
{flush,false} is given:
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style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For
integer </span><span class="code"
style="font-family:Courier,monospace;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Status</span><span
style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> the
Erlang runtime system closes all ports and allows async
threads to finish their operations before exiting. To exit
without such flushing use </span><span class="code"
style="font-family:Courier,monospace;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Option</span><span
style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> as </span><span
class="code"
style="font-family:Courier,monospace;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">{flush,false}</span><span
style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></blockquote>
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<div>However, we noticed that erlang:halt(0, []) is not flushing
at all. Looking at the code, we were able to verify it:</div>
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href="https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/a5fc79292b9b018cd39d104a8cd2e79de141e3ad/erts/emulator/beam/bif.c#L3937">https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/a5fc79292b9b018cd39d104a8cd2e79de141e3ad/erts/emulator/beam/bif.c#L3937</a></div>
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<div>The value of flush should be initialized to 1.</div>
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<div>Thank you!</div>
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Yes, that is a bug and your suggested fix seems the right thing to
do. I'll fix it.<br>
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<div>PS: erlang:halt/0 and erlang:halt/1 **are** working as
advertised.</div>
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Thanks!<br>
Patrik<br>
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