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diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml index 26ecc084c5..a0d3966f35 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/ports.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2004</year><year>2021</year> + <year>2004</year><year>2023</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -103,12 +103,9 @@ <c>Port</c> by sending and receiving messages. (In fact, any process can send the messages to the port, but the port owner must be identified in the message).</p> - <p>As of Erlang/OTP R16, messages sent to ports are delivered truly - asynchronously. The underlying implementation previously - delivered messages to ports synchronously. Message passing has - however always been documented as an asynchronous operation. Hence, - this is not to be an issue for an Erlang program communicating - with ports, unless false assumptions about ports have been made.</p> + <p>Messages sent to ports are delivered asynchronously.</p> + <change><p>Before Erlang/OTP 16, messages to ports were + delivered synchronously.</p></change> <p>In the following tables of examples, <c>Data</c> must be an I/O list. An I/O list is a binary or a (possibly deep) list of binaries or integers in the range 0..255:</p> |