[erlang-questions] The red line in appmon

[Witold Baryluk]

On 03-09 20:06, fei wang wrote:
>      When I start mnesia, and use the appmon to see the process tree of it, I
>    saw a red line between the mnesia_event and another process.
>      Can anybody tell me what does this line mean?

This link, created explicitly using link/1. If one of process will die second will
receive 'EXIT' message (is trap_exit is set), or die (if not set). Processes
can be unlinked using unlink/1.

Mnesia is probably using it for transactions.


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Witold Baryluk
JID: witold.baryluk // jabster.pl
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