[erlang-questions] accept part of a server

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

If you do 1), and want to use an active socket, you will have to assign
a new controlling process Pid to S.

If you do 2) the right process is already in control. LS is not a
problem, since the accept call does not have to be issued from the
socket owner process.

Read http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_tcp.html for more information.


bengt

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 11:40 +0200, Gamoto wrote:
> I saw two approaches for the accept part of a server:
> 
> Approach 1:
> do_accept(LS)->
> 	case gen_tcp:accept(LS) of
> 	{ok,S}->spawn(...handle(S)...),
> 		do_accept(LS);
> 	Other-> ...
> 	end.
> 
> Approach 2):
> do_accept(LS)->
> 	case gen_tcp:accept(LS) of
> 	{ok,S}-> spawn(...do_accept(LS) ...),
> 		 handle(S);
> 	Other-> ...
> 	end.
> 
> What is the better approach and the criteria for chosing (crash, supervision, ...) ?
> 
> 
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