[erlang-questions] Avoiding crash dump when returning {stop, Reason} from a gen_server?

[Siri Hansen]

2014-09-16 13:45 GMT+02:00 Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED>:

>
> So, basically, it appears that -- assuming that the rest of my plan is
> sound -- I should return {stop, {shutdown, Term}, NewState}, and
> handle the {shutdown, Term} differently in my monitoring process.
>

Yes, that is probably what you are looking for - {shutdown,Reason} was
introduced for reasons similar to this. It is handled exactly like shutdown
from supervisor's, gen_*'s and proc_lib's point of view. You can read about
it in the reference manual for these modules also.

Regards
/siri
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