[erlang-questions] Newbie question--workers starting supervisors

[Adam Lindberg]

If the gen_server is supervised, where's that supervisor? Shouldn't it
be in the application then?

The supervisors will be linked to the gen_server, but you'd have to
write any crash-handling etc yourself in the gen_server, e.g. act as a
supervisor. That's the only trouble I could think about right now. So
the question is, what code do you actually have in that gen_server and
why can't it be somewhere else?

Cheers!
Adam

On 4/17/07, Edmund Jorgensen <tomheon@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've googled for this but I can't find the answer.  In an OTP
> application, is it acceptable to have a non-supervisor process (say a
> gen_server) start one or more supervisors?  The diagrams in OTP
> principles never show such an arrangement, but they don't warn against
> it either.  The gen_server in question is itself a long lived and
> supervised process.  Will the supervisors be correctly linked to the
> gen_server that started them?  Or am I asking for problems doing it
> this way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Edmund
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