[erlang-questions] Selective receive issue
Mats Cronqvist
mats.cronqvist@REDACTED
Wed Aug 6 10:26:57 CEST 2008
Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 09:51, Mats Cronqvist
> <mats.cronqvist@REDACTED <mailto:mats.cronqvist@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
> Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
>
> There is still a problem with that (albeit a small one):
> if tracing the system with dbg, the traced processes get
> spurious 'timeout' messages directly, regardless of any
> proxies trying to protect them.
>
>
>
> que? if so, surely that's a bug? and a pretty bad one at that.
>
>
> The 'timeout' message is of course the way the trace shows that an
> "after N" clause has been chosen. It feels a little uneasy that the
> trace printout is indistinguishable from the process having received
> the atom 'timeout' in a message.
yeah, it would be nice if that behavior (issuing a trace message at
"after" clauses) could be turned off.
mats
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