[erlang-questions] hot-code replacement

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2006-10-17 04:43, jces@REDACTED wrote:
>> can anyone tell me in detail about the hot-code replacement feature in 
>> erlang and how it works... Also i am a bit confused if this feature is 
>> inherent to erlang or implemented just as a added function..
> 
> I'd like to add on to the question: how do data structure changes interact
> with code replacement? How can you change the definition of a record in a
> module and then cleanly use that, or are code updates just about functions
> definitions?

you only replace functions, but the new functions could be using new 
data structure (ie, record) definitions. see mnesia:transform_table() 
for an aide to handle table updates.

if you are using a gen_server you will have a code_change/3 callback 
that should update loop data.


bengt
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