[erlang-questions] child processes order of termination

Ahmed Omar spawn.think@REDACTED
Wed May 4 10:54:57 CEST 2011


It's done in reversed start order. When Module2 is a supervisor, his
children will be stopped first.
http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.html#id69917

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Martin Dimitrov <mrtndimitrov@REDACTED>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On application stop what is the order of termination of the supervised
> processes?
>
> For example, the supervisor's children are defined as follows:
>
> {ok, {{one_for_all, 5, 1},
>     [
>        {module1, {module1, start_link, []}, permanent, 2000, worker,
> [module1]},
>        {module2, {module2, start_link, []}, permanent, infinity,
> supervisor, [module2]},
>        {module3, {module3, start_link, []}, permanent, 2000, worker,
> [module3]}
>    ]
> }}.
>
> In what order they will be terminated? Is it determined?
>
> The module2 is also a supervisor, will its children be terminated before
> proceeding with the top one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
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