[erlang-questions] supervisor behaves differently if started from command line

[Richard Andrews]

> erl -s mysup
> 
> The top level starts mysup.erl, runs the init callback and exits hence
> taking the supervisor with it. But when you start it via an
> application, the application blocks till it is explicitly killed.

If this is the problem, then using process_flag(trap_exit,true) should allow your supervisor to continue even though its linked parent has exited.


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