gen_tcp:controlling_process

[Joakim G.]

I often argue that callback oriented programming is boring. Still I found
myself writing:

http://www.gleipnir.com/xmlrpc/unpacked/LATEST/src/tcp_serv.erl

A good old ad hoc tcp server behaviour. :-)

Cheers
/Jocke

Sean Hinde wrote:

>>As Martin says "use with care" it is worth pointing out 
>>another way of doing
>>this:
>>
>>Have a process which owns the listening socket. This will 
>>spawn a socket
>>process which will block in accept until a client arrives - 
>>at which time it
>>messages back to the listening process to tell it to spawn a new
>>socket/accepting process.
>>
>>This model is widely used but for a very nice example take a 
>>look at joe's
>>recent web_server tutorial. http://www.sics.se/~joe
>>    
>>
>
>Now I just read Chris' post pointing out Joe's comment that this is very
>complex.. If you study Joes code (always an education) you will eventually
>see why, but if you don't need to limit the number of connections then my
>recipe will work OK (you of course do need to handle EXIT messages from the
>accepting process, which may arrive before or after the accept succeeded)
>
>Sean
>
>
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