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kernel(7) | Erlang Application Definition | kernel(7) |
NAME¶
kernel - The Kernel application.DESCRIPTION¶
The Kernel application has all the code necessary to run the Erlang runtime system: file servers, code servers, and so on. The Kernel application is the first application started. It is mandatory in the sense that the minimal system based on Erlang/OTP consists of Kernel and STDLIB. Kernel contains the following functional areas:- *
- Start, stop, supervision, configuration, and distribution of applications
- *
- Code loading
- *
- Logging
- *
- Error logging
- *
- Global name service
- *
- Supervision of Erlang/OTP
- *
- Communication with sockets
- *
- Operating system interface
ERROR LOGGER EVENT HANDLERS¶
Two standard error logger event handlers are defined in the Kernel application. These are described in error_logger(3erl).CONFIGURATION¶
The following configuration parameters are defined for the Kernel application. For more information about configuration parameters, see file app(5).- browser_cmd = string() | {M,F,A}:
- When pressing the Help button in a tool such as Debugger, the help text (an HTML file File) is by default displayed in a Netscape browser, which is required to be operational. This parameter can be used to change the command for how to display the help text if another browser than Netscape is preferred, or if another platform than Unix or Windows is used.
If set to a string Command, the command "Command File"
is evaluated using os:cmd/1.
If set to a module-function-args tuple, {M,F,A}, the call
apply(M,F,[File|A]) is evaluated.
- distributed = [Distrib]:
- Specifies which applications that are distributed and on which nodes they are allowed to execute. In this parameter:
- *
- Distrib = {App,Nodes} | {App,Time,Nodes}
- *
- App = atom()
- *
- Time = integer()>0
- *
- Nodes = [node() | {node(),...,node()}]
The parameter is described in application:load/2.
- dist_auto_connect = Value:
- Specifies when nodes are automatically connected. If this parameter is not specified, a node is always automatically connected, for example, when a message is to be sent to that node. Value is one of:
- never:
- Connections are never automatically established, they must be explicitly connected. See net_kernel(3erl).
- once:
- Connections are established automatically, but only once per node. If a node goes down, it must thereafter be explicitly connected. See net_kernel(3erl).
- permissions = [Perm]:
- Specifies the default permission for applications when they are started. In this parameter:
- *
- Perm = {ApplName,Bool}
- *
- ApplName = atom()
- *
- Bool = boolean()
Permissions are described in application:permit/2.
- error_logger = Value:
- Value is one of:
- tty:
- Installs the standard event handler, which prints error reports to stdio. This is the default option.
- {file, FileName}:
- Installs the standard event handler, which prints error reports to file FileName, where FileName is a string.
- false:
- No standard event handler is installed, but the initial, primitive event handler is kept, printing raw event messages to tty.
- silent:
- Error logging is turned off.
- error_logger_format_depth = Depth:
Can be used to limit the size of the formatted output from the error logger
event handlers.
Note:
This configuration parameter was introduced in OTP 18.1 and is experimental.
Based on user feedback, it can be changed or improved in future releases, for
example, to gain better control over how to limit the size of the formatted
output. We have no plans to remove this new feature entirely, unless it turns
out to be useless.
Depth is a positive integer representing the maximum depth to which terms
are printed by the error logger event handlers included in OTP. This
configuration parameter is used by the two event handlers defined by the
Kernel application and the two event handlers in the SASL application. (If you
have implemented your own error handlers, this configuration parameter has no
effect on them.)
Depth is used as follows: Format strings passed to the event handlers are
rewritten. The format controls ~p and ~w are replaced with
~P and ~W, respectively, and Depth is used as the depth
parameter. For details, see io:format/2 in STDLIB.
Note:
A reasonable starting value for Depth is 30. We recommend to test
crashing various processes in your application, examine the logs from the
crashes, and then increase or decrease the value.
- global_groups = [GroupTuple]:
Defines global groups, see global_group(3erl). In this
parameter:
- *
- GroupTuple = {GroupName, [Node]} | {GroupName, PublishType, [Node]}
- *
- GroupName = atom()
- *
- PublishType = normal | hidden
- *
- Node = node()
- inet_default_connect_options = [{Opt, Val}]:
- Specifies default options for connect sockets, see inet(3erl).
- inet_default_listen_options = [{Opt, Val}]:
- Specifies default options for listen (and accept) sockets, see inet(3erl).
- {inet_dist_use_interface, ip_address()}:
- If the host of an Erlang node has many network interfaces, this parameter specifies which one to listen on. For the type definition of ip_address(), see inet(3erl).
- {inet_dist_listen_min, First} and {inet_dist_listen_max, Last}:
- Defines the First..Last port range for the listener socket of a distributed Erlang node.
- {inet_dist_listen_options, Opts}:
Defines a list of extra socket options to be used when opening the listening
socket for a distributed Erlang node. See
gen_tcp:listen/2.
- {inet_dist_connect_options, Opts}:
Defines a list of extra socket options to be used when connecting to other
distributed Erlang nodes. See gen_tcp:connect/4.
- inet_parse_error_log = silent:
- If set, no error_logger messages are generated when erroneous lines are found and skipped in the various Inet configuration files.
- inetrc = Filename:
- The name (string) of an Inet user configuration file. For details, see section Inet Configuration in the ERTS User's Guide.
- net_setuptime = SetupTime:
SetupTime must be a positive integer or floating point number, and is
interpreted as the maximum allowed time for each network operation during
connection setup to another Erlang node. The maximum allowed value is
120. If higher values are specified, 120 is used. Default is 7
seconds if the variable is not specified, or if the value is incorrect (for
example, not a number).
Notice that this value does not limit the total connection setup time, but
rather each individual network operation during the connection setup and
handshake.
- net_ticktime = TickTime:
Specifies the net_kernel tick time. TickTime is specified in
seconds. Once every TickTime/4 second, all connected nodes are ticked
(if anything else is written to a node). If nothing is received from another
node within the last four tick times, that node is considered to be down. This
ensures that nodes that are not responding, for reasons such as hardware
errors, are considered to be down.
The time T, in which a node that is not responding is detected, is
calculated as MinT < T < MaxT, where:
MinT = TickTime - TickTime / 4 MaxT = TickTime + TickTime / 4
TickTime defaults to 60 (seconds). Thus, 45 < T < 75
seconds.
Notice that all communicating nodes are to have the same
TickTime value specified.
Normally, a terminating node is detected immediately.
- shutdown_timeout = integer() | infinity:
- Specifies the time application_controller waits for an application to terminate during node shutdown. If the timer expires, application_controller brutally kills application_master of the hanging application. If this parameter is undefined, it defaults to infinity.
- sync_nodes_mandatory = [NodeName]:
- Specifies which other nodes that must be alive for this node to start properly. If some node in the list does not start within the specified time, this node does not start either. If this parameter is undefined, it defaults to [].
- sync_nodes_optional = [NodeName]:
- Specifies which other nodes that can be alive for this node to start properly. If some node in this list does not start within the specified time, this node starts anyway. If this parameter is undefined, it defaults to the empty list.
- sync_nodes_timeout = integer() | infinity:
- Specifies the time (in milliseconds) that this node waits for the mandatory and optional nodes to start. If this parameter is undefined, no node synchronization is performed. This option ensures that global is synchronized.
- start_dist_ac = true | false:
- Starts the dist_ac server if the parameter is true. This parameter is to be set to true for systems using distributed applications.
Defaults to false. If this parameter is undefined, the server is started
if parameter distributed is set.
- start_boot_server = true | false:
- Starts the boot_server if the parameter is true (see erl_boot_server(3erl)). This parameter is to be set to true in an embedded system using this service.
Defaults to false.
- boot_server_slaves = [SlaveIP]:
- If configuration parameter start_boot_server is true, this parameter can be used to initialize boot_server with a list of slave IP addresses:
SlaveIP = string() | atom |
{integer(),integer(),integer(),integer()},
where 0 <= integer() <=255.
Examples of SlaveIP in atom, string, and tuple form:
'150.236.16.70', "150,236,16,70", {150,236,16,70}.
Defaults to [].
- start_disk_log = true | false:
- Starts the disk_log_server if the parameter is true (see disk_log(3erl)). This parameter is to be set to true in an embedded system using this service.
Defaults to false.
- start_pg2 = true | false:
Starts the pg2 server (see pg2(3erl)) if the parameter is
true. This parameter is to be set to true in an embedded system
that uses this service.
Defaults to false.
- start_timer = true | false:
- Starts the timer_server if the parameter is true (see timer(3erl)). This parameter is to be set to true in an embedded system using this service.
Defaults to false.
- shutdown_func = {Mod, Func}:
- Where:
- *
- Mod = atom()
- *
- Func = atom()
Sets a function that application_controller calls when it starts to
terminate. The function is called as Mod:Func(Reason), where
Reason is the terminate reason for application_controller, and
it must return as soon as possible for application_controller to
terminate properly.
SEE ALSO¶
app(5), application(3erl), code(3erl), disk_log(3erl), erl_boot_server(3erl), erl_ddll(3erl), error_logger(3erl), file(3erl), global(3erl), global_group(3erl), heart(3erl), inet(3erl), net_kernel(3erl), os(3erl), pg2(3erl), rpc(3erl), seq_trace(3erl), user(3erl), timer(3erl)kernel 5.1.1 | Ericsson AB |