ets weirdness when using -run

[Bengt Kleberg]

> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:24:13 -0500
> From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@REDACTED>
> Subject: ets weirdness when using -run
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
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> I have a program that uses a public, named ets table like so:
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> But here is what happens when I run it from the command line:
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> =ERROR REPORT==== 18-Jun-2002::16:22:00 ===
> Error in process <0.30.0> with exit value:
> {badarg,[{ets,lookup,[my_ets,"Key"]},{eg,new,1}]}
> 
> 
> Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong to make my_ets just vanish
> like that?

at a guesss your original, ets table creating, process exists before
the spawned process gets to the ets:lookup() bit. no original process,
no ets table.

i have included a slight delay before exiting, and then your program
seems to work. see below.


bengt
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-module(eg).
-export([get_args/0, new/1]).

get_args() ->
	start( "Key" ),
%	init:stop( ).
	timer:apply_after( 2000, init, stop, [] ).

start(Key) ->
  my_ets = ets:new(my_ets, [public, named_table]),
  io:fwrite("~p~n", [ets:info(my_ets)]),
  start_new(lists:flatten(Key)).

start_new(Key) ->
  spawn(?MODULE, new, [Key]).

new(Key) ->
  io:fwrite("~p~n", [ets:info(my_ets)]),
  case ets:lookup(my_ets, Key) of
    [_] ->
       io:fwrite("Already in database~n");
    _ ->
       io:fwrite("Not yet in database~n")
  end.