application:stop hangs

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

Right - I did a bit of digging and found that supervisor is hanging in the 
shutdown(Pid, brutal_kill) function.

The reason seems to be that the supervisor did exit(Pid, kill) - but the
message {'EXIT', Pid, killed) was only sent to another process to which my
worker is linked to! And the supervisor is waiting in this bit of code

shutdown(Pid, brutal_kill) ->
    exit(Pid, kill),
    receive
	{'EXIT', Pid, killed} -> ok;
	{'EXIT', Pid, OtherReason} -> {error, OtherReason}
    end;

Why is it that if a process has links to many processes, only one of them
gets the message that this process has been killed??

cheers,
Chandru

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi
> [mailto:Chandrashekhar.Mullaparthi@REDACTED]
> Sent: 24 May 2001 12:21
> To: 'Erlang mailing list'
> Subject: application:stop hangs
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I need help finding out why my application:stop hangs. 
> I have a supervisor(one_for_one) which has:
>  
> 5 vanilla gen_servers, 
>     {permanent, 2000, worker}
>  
> 10 workers spawned using proc_lib:spawn by one of the above 
> gen_server. Do
> not trap exits
>     {transient, brutal_kill, worker}
>  
> 2 gen_servers which trap_exits but also shutdown when they receive a
> {'EXIT', Parent, shutdown} message
>     {permanent, 2000, worker}
>  
> 1 supervisor(simple_one_for_one) which supervises two other vanilla
> gen_servers
>     {permanent, 5000, supervisor}. Childspec is {transient, 
> 2000, worker}
>  
> How do I track down the rogue process(es)?
>  
> tia,
> Chandru
>  
> 
> 



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