Terminating application during startup

[Fredrik Thulin]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:22, Gunilla Arendt wrote:
> Then let your application recognize that it cannot start,
> print out an error message and call erlang:halt(N) with an
> appropriate error code N.

I thought there was a point in letting the application loading code 
notice the error so that it could let other already started 
applications shut down in an orderly fashion.

I would have expected especially distributed Mnesia operations to gain 
by being shut down 'nicely' rather than by erlang:halt/1?

Besides these doubts of mine, thank you for sharing your advice.

/Fredrik