catch link(Pid) when trapping exits

[Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Training & Consulting)]

> It is all there, really. Only it was written before exceptions
> were invented as a concept in Erlang, uses the term
> "exit signal" in a confusing way and lies about "does not fail".
> Ok, it is maybe dead wrong, but the intention was right.
> So, what happens is:
> 
> link(Pid) -> true           if Pid exists or the caller has
>                             process_flag(trap_exit, true).
>              error(noproc)  otherwise
> 
> The enclosing catch evaluates to {'EXIT',{noproc,Stackdump}}
> for error(noproc).             
> 
> Weird behaviour, in my opinion..

Exactly my point. Would it not be better to return error(noproc) even if 
trapping exits instead of exit(Pid, Reason)?

Francesco
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