[erlang-questions] terminating a gen_server

[Anthony Shipman]

I've found that I can do exit(Pid, shutdown) where Pid is a gen_server and it 
will nicely shut down, calling Mod:terminate.

I can't see how this works. The server is not trapping exit signals so I would 
expect it to just exit without calling Mod:terminate.

The code in gen_server:loop seems to be deliberately written to support this 
behaviour. Can we rely on it?

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