<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
> on the remote node to indicate failure. My question is about<br>
> distributed processes that simply die/lose contact.<br>
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> Let's say the remote process is on a computer whose network cable is suddenly<br>
> removed. What happens then, does the supervisor do its own active checks,<br>
> what is the fallback mechanism there?<br>
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</div>Normally you would have a supervisor only take care of local processes.<br>
Supervising remote processes is probably technically possible, but isn't<br>
something I'd contemplate for a production system (but maybe that's just<br>
me).<br><br></blockquote></div><br><div>The distribution protocol transparently support process links and process monitors. If the connection to a remote node is lost all links and monitors associated with a process on the remote node fire with the reason 'noconnection'.</div>