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From 0c2a65027b1502a4fd03624e6e4314259a38a7be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rickard Green <rickard@erlang.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:02:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Reference manual: Improve documentation of process
 creation

---
 system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml
index 597258b9fd..d3b1110d23 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml
@@ -40,18 +40,24 @@
 
   <section>
     <title>Process Creation</title>
-    <p>A process is created by calling <c>spawn</c>:</p>
+    <p>A process is created by calling <c>spawn()</c>:</p>
     <pre>
 spawn(Module, Name, Args) -> pid()
   Module = Name = atom()
   Args = [Arg1,...,ArgN]
     ArgI = term()</pre>
-    <p><c>spawn</c> creates a new process and returns the pid.</p>
+    <p><c>spawn()</c> creates a new process and returns the pid.</p>
     <p>The new process starts executing in
       <c>Module:Name(Arg1,...,ArgN)</c> where the arguments are
       the elements of the (possible empty) <c>Args</c> argument list.</p>
-    <p>There exist a number of other <c>spawn</c> BIFs, for example,
-      <c>spawn/4</c> for spawning a process at another node.</p>
+    <p>There exist a number of different <c>spawn</c> BIFs:</p>
+    <list>
+    	<item><seealso marker="erts:erlang#spawn/4"><c>spawn/1,2,3,4</c></seealso></item>
+	<item><seealso marker="erts:erlang#spawn_link/4"><c>spawn_link/1,2,3,4</c></seealso></item>
+	<item><seealso marker="erts:erlang#spawn_monitor/4"><c>spawn_monitor/1,2,3,4</c></seealso></item>
+	<item><seealso marker="erts:erlang#spawn_opt/5"><c>spawn_opt/2,3,4,5</c></seealso></item>
+	<item><seealso marker="erts:erlang#spawn_request/5"><c>spawn_request/1,2,3,4,5</c></seealso></item>
+    </list>
   </section>
 
   <section>
-- 
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