[erlang-questions] Clarification on supervisor restart limits

[Anthony Shipman]

The doco says:

"To prevent a supervisor from getting into an infinite loop of child process 
terminations and restarts, a maximum restart frequency is defined using two 
integer values MaxR and MaxT. If more than MaxR restarts occur within MaxT 
seconds, the supervisor terminates all child processes and then itself."

I've always interpreted that to mean that the limits are applied to each child 
individually. But it appears that in reality restarts are counted over all 
children. 

Perhaps it would be clearer to add to the doco something like "Restarts are 
not counted per child. A restart is counted if any child restarts."
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