[erlang-questions] simple_one_for_one supervisor - what happens at restart? (also: gen_tcp)

[Fred Hebert]

On 05/16, Fred Hebert wrote:
>Funnily enough, the supervision structure isn't all that is being 
>trusted though. When an app is shut down, the application controller 
>(or is it the master?) also runs through all of the processes on the 
>node and looks for those for whose it is the group leader and then 
>force kills them -- preventing the terminate function from being 
>called.
>

I wanted to add that this is only done once all of the supervision trees 
are shut down recursively for that app. What is then cleaned up brutally 
is unsupervised processes.