[erlang-questions] dumb question from rookie

[envelopes envelopes]

weird.

Why "erl -pa ebin -s mysample_app start x y" doesn't work, but  "erl -pa
ebin -s application start mysample" works,

is it a bug in erlang?


On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Ryan Huffman <ryanhuffman@REDACTED> wrote:

> It looks like you are trying to call your state function with 0 arguments,
> but the start function has an arity of 2 (it expects 2 arguments).  You can
> add 2 dummy arguments or use `-s application start mysample` instead.
>
> On Monday, March 5, 2012 at 10:07 PM, envelopes envelopes wrote:
>
>
> I have a sample program generated from rebar
>
> 1. mysample_app.erl
>
> -module(mysample_app).
>
> -behaviour(application).
>
> %% Application callbacks
> -export([start/2, stop/1, main/1]).
>
> %% ===================================================================
> %% Application callbacks
> %% ===================================================================
>
> start(_StartType, _StartArgs) ->
>     mysample_sup:start_link().
>
> stop(_State) ->
>     ok.
>
>
> main([A]) ->
> I = list_to_integer(atom_to_list(A)),
> F = fac(I),
> io:format("factorial ~w = ~w~n" ,[I, F]),
> init:stop().
> fac(0) -> 1;
> fac(N) -> N*fac(N-1).
>
>
> 2. mysample_sup.erl
>
>
> -module(mysample_sup).
>
> -behaviour(supervisor).
>
> %% API
> -export([start_link/0]).
>
> %% Supervisor callbacks
> -export([init/1]).
>
> %% Helper macro for declaring children of supervisor
> -define(CHILD(I, Type), {I, {I, start_link, []}, permanent, 5000, Type,
> [I]}).
>
> %% ===================================================================
> %% API functions
> %% ===================================================================
>
> start_link() ->
>     supervisor:start_link({local, ?MODULE}, ?MODULE, []).
>
> %% ===================================================================
> %% Supervisor callbacks
> %% ===================================================================
>
> init([]) ->
>     {ok, { {one_for_one, 5, 10}, []} }.
>
>
> 3) the problem.
> erl -pa ebin -s mysample_app main 23  ===> worked fine
> erl -pa ebin -s mysample_app start   ===> crashed on boot.
>
> {"init terminating in
> do_boot",{undef,[{mysample_app,start,[],[]},{init,start_it
>
> ,1,[{file,"init.erl"},{line,1042}]},{init,start_em,1,[{file,"init.erl"},{line,10
> 22}]}]}}
>
> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
> init terminating in do_boot ()
>
> what is the cause ? my erlang is the latest R15.
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