Shutting down a simple child

Vance Shipley vances@REDACTED
Tue Jun 29 18:28:20 CEST 2004


It seems that the main loop of gen_server (a supervisor is a 
gen_server) traps {'EXIT', Parent, Reason} and runs the 
terminate function.  So to shutdown the child with the same
method you would need to send an EXIT message with the pid
of the supervisor.

	{ok, SuperSuper} = supervisor:start_link(supersuper, []),
	{ok, Super} = supervisor:start_child(SuperSuper, []),
	...
	Super ! {'EXIT', SuperSuper, shutdown}.

Hmmm ... is that bad form?

	-Vance



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