[erlang-questions] Lost messages

[Mazen Harake]

Hi George,

I'm curious in which situation you are considering this a problem. Can
you please elaborate?

Also, if you can, you should somehow link to the processes and clean
them up from the ETS table to avoid this problem.

Regards,

/Mazen

George Xu wrote:
> It is said that send message is safe. But I count the problem of lost 
> message.
>
> The situation is like this:
>
> 1. I use a ets table to store all process to be communicated.
> 2. But those process will terminated with some cases.
> 3. In case of one process is terminated but still not reflected to the ets 
> table, send message to this process happened sametimes. It seems the 
> message is send, but it can not reach since the process is termiated and 
> the message is lost.
>
> Anyone knows how to solve this problem?
>
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