[erlang-questions] ets error with shell startup params

[Dave Rafkind]

Ahh nevermind, this was it.

http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2002-June/005098.html

On 10/23/07, Dave Rafkind <dave.rafkind@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Hello list, I'm having some trouble with ETS. I have the following code in
> tracker.erl
>
> dave1() ->
>   ObjectSet = ets:new(object_set, [set, {keypos, 5}]),
>   spawn(tracker, dave2, [[], ObjectSet]).
>
> dave2(ClientList, ObjectSet) ->
>   MyList = ets:tab2list(ObjectSet),
>   io:format("ObjectSet: ~p~n", [MyList]).
>
>
> This code works fine if I do
>
>    erl -boot start_sasl -pz ebin -sname dave
>
> and then run tracker:dave1() from the shell.
>
> But if I do
>
>   erl -boot start_sasl -pz ebin -sname dave -s tracker dave1
>
> Then I get this error in the shell on startup:
>
> =ERROR REPORT==== 23-Oct-2007::16:07:11 ===
> Error in process <0.46.0> on node 'dave@REDACTED' with exit value:
> {badarg,[{ets,match_object,[16,'_']},{ets,tab2list,1},{tracker,dave2,2}]}
>
>
>
> What's up with that? Do I have to enforce some ordering of application
> startup?
>
>
>
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