<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Not sure if this will help at all, but try trapping exits in that gen_server (i.e. process_flag(trap_exit, true).) since terminate might not be evaluated unless you’re trapping exits. Ref: <a href="http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#Module:terminate-2" class="">http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#Module:terminate-2</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck!<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Mar 2018, at 09:48, Heinrich Venter <<a href="mailto:hfventer@gmail.com" class="">hfventer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have been experiencing the strangest thing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am using an application (gen_rpc) that internally uses a gen_server to manage a gen_tcp outgoing socket.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On closing of the socket form the server side, the message {tcp_closed, Socket} is received in the handle_info. This handle_info returns {stop, normal, State}</div><div class="">BUT</div><div class="">The gen_server does not actually terminate. It does not call terminate and the PID remains registered locally. It actually keeps on processing messages which leads to badtcp reponses when it tires to send on the failed socket.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Has any one seen something remotely like this, or have any suggestions of how to proceed?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Links</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/priestjim/gen_rpc" class="">https://github.com/priestjim/gen_rpc</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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