spawn without linking?

[Shawn Pearce]

Actually, it is that hard to do...  the OTP behaviors offer lots
of well tested/debugging implementations which handle the border
cases extremely well.  Which a naive quick implementation using
just the basic spawn_link/* and trap_exit won't get quite right on
the first few tries.

OTP rocks for that reason alone... but yea, gen_server isn't the
most "Erlang" way to write a server, but its the Erlang/OTP way.

Dustin Sallings <dustin@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 20, 2004, at 19:09, Vance Shipley wrote:
> 
> 	[lots of really useful information for which I'm grateful]
> 
> >The real solution is to use the design patterns in OTP.  You need a
> >top level supervisor which starts children and restarts them when
> >necessary.  The SASL application runs to handle error_reports,
> >crash_reports and progress messages.  Your server processes are
> >instances of gen_server behaviours.  You start the application
> >using application:start/1.  Using this framework you will create
> >more resilient applications without having to think too hard about
> >it.
> 
> 	I was going through the course thing and trying to understand 
> 	process relationships and stuff.  Even with this, it doesn't seem *that* 
> hard to do it manually, but I'm all for better ways to do things.

-- 
Shawn.