[erlang-questions] process_info/2 returning badarg with message_que_len

[Bryan Hughes]

Thanks Bob!

It is a typo in the docs.

http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#process_info-2

process_info_item() = backtrace
                     | binary
                     | catchlevel
                     | current_function
                     | current_location
                     | current_stacktrace
                     | dictionary
                     | error_handler
                     | garbage_collection
                     | group_leader
                     | heap_size
                     | initial_call
                     | links
                     | last_calls
                     | memory
                     | message_que_len       <======== TYPO
                     | messages
                     | min_heap_size
                     | min_bin_vheap_size
                     | monitored_by
                     | monitors
                     | priority
                     | reductions
                     | registered_name
                     | sequential_trace_token
                     | stack_size
                     | status
                     | suspending
                     | total_heap_size
                     | trace
                     | trap_exit


Cheers,
B

On 4/22/13 3:38 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Is that a typo in the docs? Should be message_queue_len.
>
> On Monday, April 22, 2013, Bryan Hughes wrote:
>
>     Howdy,
>
>     I am having some weirdness.  Running on the latest build of R16B
>     (erts-5.10.1).  Per the documentation
>     (http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#process_info-2),
>     when I call it:
>
>     Info = erlang:process_info(self(), [memory, heap_size,
>     message_que_len]),
>
>     I get the following error:
>
>     * Reason for termination ==
>     ** {badarg,[{erlang,process_info,
>     [<0.127.0>,[memory,heap_size,message_que_len]],
>                         []},
>
>     When I call it without message_que_len, or instead use messages:
>
>     Info = erlang:process_info(self(), [memory, heap_size, messages]),
>
>     Life is good.  According to the docs, message_que_len is a valid
>     process_info_item().  Is the documentation wrong, or am I doing
>     something wrong?
>
>     Note that this also happens in the shell.
>
>     Thanks again!
>
>     Cheers,
>     Bryan
>
>     -- 
>
>     Bryan Hughes
>     *Go Factory*
>     http://www.go-factory.net
>
>     /"Art is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo da Vinci"/
>
>


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