timer cleanup in case gen_server crashes
Vance Shipley
vances@REDACTED
Fri Sep 3 13:31:31 CEST 2004
Tony,
Your comments caused me to have a look at gen_fsm.erl as I was
just now using the new built in timers in gen_fsm for the first
time. They don't seem to do anything special to clean up in the
terminate function.
-Vance
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:43:06PM +0200, Tony Rogvall wrote:
}
} I think that the timer bifs are better and more light weight
}
} Ref = erlang:set_timer(AfterMilli, Pid, Term) or
} Ref = erlang:send_after(AfterMilli, Pid, Message)
} erlang:cancel_timer(Ref)
}
} They however must be cleaned up in the terminate function.
} This is a place for emulator improvement, that is to associate
} all timers with the receiving process and clean them automatically
} when that process dies (no point sending timeout to a dead process!)
}
} Thanks for pointing that out (indirectly :-)
}
} /Tony
}
}
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