Supervision Trees - A Beginner Writes

[Gordon Guthrie, BTP, BT, SE]

Bengt Kleberg wrote:

> here we have 2 emacs (gnu-emacs and gnu-xemacs). i use none, but upon 
> inspection i found that xemacs has an erlang menu with ''skeletons''. 
> the one for supervisor says maxr 0, maxt 1.
> which means that if you have more than 0 restarts during the last 1 
> second your supervisor will terminate all the child processes 
> and then 
> itself.
> if you have the same skeleton (haunting name, is it not?) try 
> and change 
> these values. maxr should surely be more than 0 for the case you have 
> previously described.

That's working fine now (especially as I have replaced my homebrew timeout
nonsense handled by call_info with normal gen_server timeout behaviour).

<Boggle>Gosh, it is easy to write a supervision heirarchy with OTP, isn't
it?</boggle>

Gordon

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