[erlang-questions] application:start crash, bug?

[Wes James]

I see you still have had no response on this.  Maybe the start is
happening to fast for the stop to complete?  Does the application:stop
have its own thread to complete or does it complete before the next
line, in this case, application:start get executed?  How does erlang
handle each line of code when they are executed?

-wes

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Alisdair Sullivan
<alisdairsullivan@REDACTED> wrote:
> the sequence:
>
> application:start({application, crypto, [{mod, {crypto_app, []}}]}),
> application:stop(crypto),
> application:start({application, crypto, [{mod, {crypto_app, []}}]}).
>
> results in the following error:
>
> {"Kernel pid terminated",application_controller,{{badmatch,false},[{application_controller,handle_application_started,3},{gen_server,handle_msg,5}]}}
>
> and a hard crash. It doesn't matter which application I attempt to start, I encounter this error with all of them.
>
> I realize using application:start in this manner is undocumented, but from looking over application_controller.erl, I can't locate the source of the error. Any insight?
>
> Alisdair
>
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