Erlang -- Introduction

System Architecture Support Libraries (SASL)

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### Chapters

- Introduction
  - Top of chapter
  - Scope
  - Prerequisites
- SASL Error Logging
  - Top of chapter
  - Supervisor Report
  - Progress Report
  - Crash Report
  - Multi-File Error Report Logging
  - Report Browser

# 1 Introduction

### 1.1 Scope

The SASL application provides support for:

- Error logging
- Alarm handling
- Release handling
- Report browsing

Section SASL Error Logging describes the error handler that produces the supervisor, progress, and crash reports, which can be written to screen or to a specified file. It also describes the Report Browser (RB).

The sections about release structure and release handling have been moved to section OTP Design Principles in System Documentation.

### 1.2 Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language.