[erlang-questions] How to upgrade running applications repeatedly

[Matthias Lang]

Roger Larsson writes:
 > I think that this is your problem
 > 
 > On Thursday 07 June 2007 22:06, Bo wrote:
 > > start_server(L) ->
 > >     process_flag(trap_exit, true),
 > >     register(test,
 > >          spawn(fun() ->
 > >             process_flag(trap_exit, true),
 > >             Val= (catch ?MODULE:server_loop([L])),
 > >             io:format("Server terminated with:~p~n",[Val])
 > >            end)).
 > 
 > This one function that will not upgrade itself. Requiring the
 > original version to remain in memory.

You're right, I missed that.

 > Simple test move this part to another module.
 > (But I think the real solution would be to use spawn_link)

spawn_link on its own will make the problem more obvious, but it won't
make it go away.

Matthias