[erlang-questions] Upgrading a gen_tcp acceptor process

[Sam Bobroff]

Hello again Erlangers,

I've been teaching myself about code reloading (or "hot upgrades") and
I've hit problem with my very simple test application.

The problem occurs in a server that accepts TCP connections and is:

(1) To do it's work, the process must at some point call
gen_tcp:accept() to accept new connections, which blocks.
(2) To be upgraded, the process must handle system messages in a receive
loop.

I can't see a way to reconcile (1) and (2) without polling constantly by
adding a timeout to gen_tcp:accept(), and this seems to be a horrible
solution. Given that this is probably a very common situation, how am I
supposed to handle it?

(I don't want to confuse things, but it seems like the interface to
gen_tcp:accept() causes another problem: It can't be put in a gen_server
for the same reason. It seems "obvious" that there should be a message
passing interface to it but I don't see an EEP for it; is there some
reason why it couldn't work that way?)

Thanks in advance for any comments or pointers!

Peace,
Sam.