[erlang-questions] Some problem abount exit signal?

[Ulf Wiger]

On 5 Dec 2010, at 04:02, Frédéric Trottier-Hébert wrote:

> 
> I'm not sure this can entirely be a bug. See the following: 
> 
> 1> catch exit(hah).
> {'EXIT',hah}
> 2> catch exit(self(), hah).
> ** exception exit: hah
> 
> In this case, exit/1 is trappable, while exit/2 is not. They already behave differently depending on whether they are 'internal' (exit/1) or 'external' (exit/2). I don't see it as too extravagant to have one kind of kill behaving differently than the other in that context.


Bug or not, I think the difference between exit/1 and exit/2 should be documented.

Specifically, I guess the interpretation is that the atom 'kill' is _only_
special when used as second argument to exit/2.

BR,
Ulf W

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