[erlang-questions] Clean/ignore dead process messages

[Attila Rajmund Nohl]

If the "out" message is sent after the client process died, but before
the 'DOWN' message is received, the data is still lost.

2009/8/20, Zoltan Lajos Kis <kiszl@REDACTED>:
> Hi,
>
> One way is to monitor all waiting processes in your fifo process. If the
> process dies, you will receive a 'DOWN' message, so you can remove the
> dead process from the remove queue.
[...]
>> The queue still have the "out" message from the now dead process in its
>> inbox. When the queue gets non-empty the message matches and queue sends
>> data to dead process and data are lost.
>>
>> Is there a way to remove all messages from killed/dead process from
>> other's
>> process inbox?
>> Or do you see some other way to ensure that the data are not lost?
>>
>> Thanks for your ideas.
>> Petr
>>
>>
>
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