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Merge pull request erlang#7839 from gustawlippa/patch-3
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Change "effecting" into "affecting"
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bjorng authored Nov 8, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -582,11 +582,11 @@ spawn(Module, Name, Args) -> pid()
still executing dirty native code. <i>Directly visible Erlang
resources</i> will be released, but the runtime system cannot
force the native code to stop executing. The runtime system tries
to prevent the execution of the dirty native code from effecting
to prevent the execution of the dirty native code from affecting
other processes by, for example, disabling functionality such as
<seecref marker="erts:erl_nif#enif_send"><c>enif_send()</c></seecref>
when used from a terminated process, but if the NIF is not well
behaved it can still effect other processes. A well behaved dirty
behaved it can still affect other processes. A well behaved dirty
NIF should test if
<seecref marker="erts:erl_nif#enif_is_current_process_alive">the
process it is executing in has exited</seecref>, and if so stop
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