[erlang-questions] Undefined function call kills linked-in driver.

[Sten Gruener]

Hello paul,

the port owning process is the erl shell. It imho does not terminate with
undef.

Greetings,
Sten

2009/2/13 Paul Fisher <pfisher@REDACTED>

> Sten Gruener wrote:
>
>> Hello group,
>>
>> we are developing a linked-in driver. Unfortunately calling *any*
>> undefined function causes the linked driver to die. Is it an Erlang bug? Are
>> there any workouts?
>>
>
> I'm guess at what is going on for you here, but this is probably what is
> happening...
>
> If the port owning process terminates (for example with a undef as
> suggest,) the port instance will be closed.  If you want the port instance
> to remain available then you would need to have it owned by another process,
> and use driver_send_term() to send replies to non-owner  processes making
> requests.
>
>
> --
> paul
>
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