[erlang-questions] Issue in killing the process

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On 2018年10月9日火曜日 10時18分20秒 JST Prakash Parmar wrote:
> As mentioned in exit/2<http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#exit-2> doc,
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>  "... If Reason is the atom normal, Pid does not exit. If it is trapping exits, the exit signal is transformed into a message {'EXIT', From, normal} and delivered to its message queue. ..."
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> use exit(whereis(Pid), Reason), where Reason will be anything than normal .

Indeed. Nice catch. I didn't even address the case where the process is trapping exits.

Like the old Raid commercial: "A call to `exit(Pid, kill)` kills bugs dead."

-Craig