Spawning erl from a C program

[Joel Reymont]

It turns out to be harder than I thought. I can connect to erl only  
if I launch it from the command line. I always get -3 from  
erl_connect when I spawn erl from my C program.

For some reason I cannot connect to the spawned node from another  
node either, although net_adm:ping/1 returns 'pong'. This is the  
spawned node:

6060  ??  S      0:00.14 /usr/local/lib/erlang/erts-5.5/bin/beam -- - 
root /usr/local/lib/erlang -progname erl -- -home /Users/joelr -sname  
 -noshell -noinput -setcookie foobarbaz -noshell - 
noinput

I then do this:

erl -setcookie foobarbaz -sname

Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.5 [source] [async-threads:0] [hipe]

Eshell V5.5  (abort with ^G)
(
)1>
User switch command
--> r '
'
--> j
    1  {shell,start,[init]}
    2* {
,shell,start,[]}
--> c 2
*** ERROR: Shell process terminated! (^G to start new job) ***

and the result is clearly not what I'm expecting! I can ping the  
node, though:

User switch command
--> j
    1  {shell,start,[init]}
--> c 1

(
)2> net_adm:ping('
').
pang

Any clues?

	Thanks, Joel

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