[erlang-questions] [Q]: Terminating supervisor and its workers

[Lennart Öhman]

Hi,
have you turned trap_exit to true in your worker?

A gen_server process does not automatically start trapping exits
and will therefore of course respond immediately to an exit signal
from its supervisor (an exit signal other than normal that is) unless
trapping exits.

Best Regards
Lennart

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Subject: [erlang-questions] [Q]: Terminating supervisor and its workers

Hello,

I have a supervisor that has one worker child (a gen_server) which has an ODBC session to a database. When I terminate the supervisor by evaluating exit(Sup, shutdown), ODBC session terminates with error saying that its client (my worker) was terminated "abnormally".

I thought that exit(Sup, shutdown) is the proper (normal) way how to gracefully terminate a supervision tree, meaning that gen_server terminate/2 callback function of my worker will be called...

So my question is, how to terminate a supervision tree so that a worker has a chance to clean up after itself?

Thanks,

Ladislav Lenart

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