[erlang-questions] terminating external port program

[Robert Virding]

2009/1/11 Howard Yeh <hayeah@REDACTED>

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Howard Yeh <hayeah@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>
> > But writing a wrapper isn't a viable approach... that leaves me with
> > patching port_info? What's the reason of keeping the process id
> > hidden?
> >
>
> Answering my own question, the reason to keep process id hidden
> is that a port isn't always a process, or even local. Right?
>
> But why not make it s.t.  erlang:port_close/1 sends a kill signal
> when the port wraps a process? I can't figure out a reliable way
> to kill spawned port process if it doesn't "terminate properly".


I think one reason not to kill the process
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