[erlang-questions] Connect to an old Erlang node

[Lukas Larsson]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 4:04 PM Frank Muller <frank.muller.erl@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Hi Lukas
>
> How about thedistribution protocol version compatability with the +R
> option:
>
>      http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#compat_rel
>
> Will it help on my case?
>

No, it will not.

https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c#L1972

That option currently does not currently do anything at all.


>
> Best
> /Frank
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 8:07 AM Frank Muller <frank.muller.erl@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> Can I disable this behaviour when connecting to an old node with no
>>> support
>>> for UTF8 atoms?
>>>
>>> (client@REDACTED)1>
>>>
>>> =ERROR REPORT==== 17-Nov-2017::00:32:12 ===
>>>
>>> ** server@REDACTED: Connection attempt from node server@REDACTED rejected since
>>> it cannot handle ["UTF8_ATOMS"].**
>>>
>>>
>>> I’m not using UTF8 at all and just want to be able to connect.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a flag to disable this?
>>>
>>
>> No. The support to talk using latin1 atoms has been removed from the VM
>> on newer versions of Erlang.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> /Frank
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