[erlang-questions] inets services startup

[Serge Aleynikov]

Julian Fondren wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Serge <serge@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Are there any more elegant ways of embedding inets and
>> solving the described issue aside from patching the distribution?
> 
> Why do you discard the solution of patching the distribution?
> It's quite easy to do; you can even have your patched module
> refuse to operate when other modules of its OTP application
> change versions, as in a OTP upgrade.  Your patched module
> can live in its own space and just get loaded favorably with
> code:add_patha/1

Frankly I already have far too many OTP matches to deal with.  Every 
time there's a new OTP version released it becomes time consuming to 
analyze changes and merge.  In fact I am very glad that the OTP team 
recently accepted our inet driver patches for SCTP support included in 
R11B-4 - those were the most painful patches to maintain outside of the OTP.

The problem described in my last email sounds more like a flaw in inets 
functionality that likely needs to be fixed.  I may submit a patch but 
if there is a workaround I am inclined to use the later.

Serge