[erlang-patches] Add supervisor:start_child/3 to limit the number of children

[Vance Shipley]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Siri Hansen <erlangsiri@REDACTED> wrote:
> I'm happy to announce that in OTP-18, the supervisor API will be improved to allow supervisor flags and childspecs declared as maps (similar to http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2012-January/002574.html, except maps are used instead of proplists). This will allow for additions to these data structures. We now wonder if the functionality handled in the current thread is still wanted, and if so if the patch should be rewritten to use the new API?

Yes, indeed it is.  I will submit a new patch.

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     -Vance