[erlang-questions] {badarg, [{code_server, call, 2}, {error_handler, undefined_function, 3}]}

[Bernard Duggan]

While someone else can probably explain exactly why you're getting that
particular message (I could guess, but I'd probably get it wrong), I can
at least tell you why your test isn't working :)
The use of "-s init stop" tells the erts to execute "init:stop" as soon
as the previous function ("inp:start") returns.  The problem you're
having is that inp:start spawns a thread and returns straight away.  The
erts then calls init:stop, killing off the whole elang vm (and,
presumably, creating some kind of error condition in the remaining
thread which is the output you're seeing).
You need to either have inp:start wait until its child process has
completed (perhaps with a 'receive' block), or not tell the vm to shut
down using "-s init stop".

Hope that's some help.

Cheers,

Bernard

David Tucker wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> My simple program below gives an error on exit.  Any idea what is
> wrong?  Thanks.
>
> Dave
>
> ---
>
> $ cat inp.erl
> -module(inp).
> -compile(export_all).
>
> start() ->
>     spawn(fun() -> one_line() end).
>
> one_line() ->
>     case io:get_line("") of
>      Str -> lib:nonl(Str)
>     end.
> $ erlc inp.erl
> $ erl -noshell -s inp start -s init stop
> {error_logger,{{2008,12,8},{21,39,50}},"~s~n",["Error in process
> <0.28.0> with exit value:
> {badarg,[{code_server,call,2},{error_handler,undefined_function,3}]}\n"]}
> $ port info erlang | head -1
> erlang R12B-5, lang/erlang (Variants: universal, smp, ssl, hipe, i386)
>
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