gen_server code_change

[Ulf Wiger]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Tony Pedley wrote:

>I had always assumed up to now that the gen_server callback function
>code_change was called automatically when a new gen_server module
>was loaded into the Erlang shell(i.e l(Module)) This was partly due
>to my reading of the Erlang Reference Manual

Oh, to answer this specific question, the only thing that happens
when you call l(Module) in the shell is that the code is loaded.
To simulate an upgrade of Module, you'd have to do this:

sys:suspend(MyProc).
l(Module).
sys:change_code(MyProc, undefined, Module, Extra).
sys:resume(MyProc).


/Uffe
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