[erlang-questions] suspending/resuming a process

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

For debugging you can use:

erlang:suspend_process/1,2  and
erlang:resume_process/1

which does what you initially intended .. i believe.

// Björn-Egil

On 2013-12-03 14:53, Martin Dimitrov wrote:
> Thanks. I can't detach from my C background.
>
>
> On 12/3/2013 3:13 PM, Dmitry Klionsky wrote:
>> The sys module doesn't work with any processes, but only with those
>> implemented using behaviours or the special processes implemented using
>> proc_lib.
>> http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/spec_proc.html
>>
>>
>> On 12/03/2013 04:05 PM, Martin Dimitrov wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to figure out how to use sys:suspend/1,2 and sys:resume/1,2
>>> but without any luck.
>>>
>>> I tried:
>>>
>>> 1> P = spawn(fun() -> lists:foreach(fun(_) -> io:format("cool~n", []),
>>> timer:sleep(1000) end, lists:seq(1, 100)) end).
>>> 2> sys:suspend(P).
>>>
>>> but the process clearly continued to run because was printing "cool"
>>> every second.
>>>
>>> After 5 seconds (which is the default timeout for sys:suspend/1,2, I
>>> guess), I got the following error:
>>>
>>> ** exception exit: {timeout,{sys,suspend,[<0.176.0>]}}
>>>        in function  sys:send_system_msg/2 (sys.erl, line 242)
>>>
>>> Thank you very much,
>>>
>>> Martin
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