[erlang-questions] Programming question

[Sean Hinde]

On 24 Jan 2007, at 13:42, Mats Cronqvist wrote:

> Sean Hinde wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A quick question for Erlang gurus out there.
>>
>> I have two processes A and B. B spends most of its life in a series
>> of gen_server calls towards A:
>>
>> loopB(PidA, S) ->
>>       Res = gen_server:call(PidA, {op, stuff}),
>>       S1 = process(Res, S),
>>       loopB(PidA, S1).
>>
>> The question is how do I set things up so that if A dies B is killed?
>
>
>   as a non-guru, i was thinking that happened automatically as soon  
> as you made
> the call?
>
> 1> is_process_alive(Pid).
> false
> 2> gen_server:call(Pid, {op, stuff}).
> ** exited: {noproc,{gen_server,call,[<0.14604.0>,{op,stuff}]}} **

loopB spends most of its time waiting for a reply to the call. The  
likelihood is that Process A will die during the processing of the  
call, not while it is being "sent". In that case the above will not  
happen. Question still stands :-)

Sean