Supervision tree and notification of child exit

[Rick Pettit]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 07:43:27PM +0000, Joel Reymont wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I would like to use a supervision tree and get notified when a child  
> crashes. I would like to know the error as well. Is there a way to  
> achieve this within the supervisor module or would I need to roll a  
> supervisor of my own?
> 
> I'm coding a test harness and my goal is to log an entry with the pid  
> and exit reason one a child exits.

I asked a very similar question back in september--the entire thread is in the
list archives and begins w/the following post:

  http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200509/msg00457.html

I received the most help from Serge Aleynikov. IIRC the following post helped
the most:

  http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200509/msg00470.html

Hope that helps,

-Rick