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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As mentioned in <b><a href="http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#exit-2" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk81874" previewremoved="true">exit/2</a></b> doc,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">"... </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">If </span><span class="code" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: mono, Courier, monospace; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Reason</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> is
the atom </span><span class="code" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: mono, Courier, monospace; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">normal</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">, </span><span class="code" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: mono, Courier, monospace; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Pid</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> does
not exit<span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">. If it is trapping exits, the exit signal is transformed into a message </span><span class="code" style="font-family: mono, Courier, monospace; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 16px;">{'EXIT',
From, normal}</span><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> and delivered to its message queue.</span> ...</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">" </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">use <span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace;">
exit(whereis(Pid), Reason)</span>, where <span style="font-family: "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 16px;">Reason <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">will
be anything than</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: mono, Courier, monospace; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243);">normal</span> .</p>
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<div>/Cheers</div>
Prakash
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 9, 2018 3:19:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joe Armstrong; Erlang Questions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [erlang-questions] Issue in killing the process</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi all,<br>
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In my application, I spawned a process and registered with a name. <br>
That process will do multiple rpc async calls. After making async calls, <br>
I tried to kill the process using exit(whereis(process_name), normal) <br>
but process is still existing and results of async call are yielded. <br>
Can you please suggest how can I kill the process and results should not <br>
be yielded?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Gattu shivakrishna.<br>
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