[erlang-patches] fix supervisors restarting temporary children

[Henrik Nord]

On 08/03/2011 05:07 PM, Frédéric Trottier-Hébert wrote:
> git fetch git@REDACTED:ferd/otp.git fix_supervisor_temporary_restart
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> This patch fixes the issue discussed at http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-August/060419.html, namely that in one_for_all or rest_for_one strategies, the supervisor is still trying to restart temporary children. Because we don't track their MFAs entirely, this causes repetitive crashes.
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> This patch fixes the behaviour by inserting a clause in terminate_children/2-3 (private function) that will omit temporary children when building a list of killed processes, to avoid having the supervisor trying to restart them again.
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> Only supervisors in need of restarting children used the list, so the change should be of no impact for the functions that called terminate_children/2-3 only to kill all children. This also avoids useless iterations if the filtering step were to be inserted at any other point in the code.
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> A test suite has been added to supervisor_SUITE, containing checks for both one_for_all and rest_for_one. I've only ran the tests for the suite itself, but all of them pass without a problem.
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> The commit/diff itself: https://github.com/ferd/otp/commit/25aab8efdef5c6898a679705158627cded3f847a
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I have included your branch in 'pu'
Thank you for the contribution.

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/Henrik Nord Erlang/OTP