[erlang-questions] A possible problem with the canonical listener idiom

[John Haugeland]

> Could you kindly point me to the place in code in that tutorial at trapexit
> where you see the race condition?  The process owning the listening socket
> has it open with {active, false}.  After accepting a client's socket that
> socket *inherits socket options* (including {active, false}) from the
> listener, and transfers ownership of the socket to the newly spawned client
> handling process by calling Module:set_socket/2, which does
> inet:setopts(Socket, [{active, once}]) in the context of the process
> different from the listener.
>
> I don't see a race condition here.
>

I apologize.  I misread.  You are correct.

(Also, I need to quit accidentally sending responses to people, rather than
the list.)
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