[erlang-questions] Possible bug after ets:insert exception

[Paul Fisher]

Colm Dougan wrote:
> I'm running 12B-3.  Below is a console session.  Everything worked as
> expected until "4>" where I unintentionally provided an atom in my
> insert and I get a bad arg.  Again that was expected.  What I didn't
> expect, however, was that from then on the ets table seemed to be in a
> bad state and couldn't be queried.  I realise this is an edge case.
> Is this a bug?

No, not a bug.  What is happening is the shell process which owned the 
ets table died when the exception was generated and therefore the ets 
table was cleaned up.  This is confusing since the shell appears to keep 
going after printing out the exception messages, but in fact it is 
another process.


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paul