[erlang-questions] Shell pid changes after an error occurred

[Loïc Hoguin]

Before running your error command, try:

catch_exception(true).

http://erlang.org/doc/man/shell.html#catch_exception-1

On 04/09/2017 09:46 PM, Jakub Groncki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My first message here so it may be very n00b but well, I just started to
> pick up some Erlang a couple of days ago (I'm halfway through
> "Introducing Erlang" + I find this book quite enjoyable). So there's
> this one thing that's been bugging me ever since I learnt about
> processes, pids and the like - the shell pid seems to change after an
> error caused by malformed code or after a user exception is thrown. See
> this terminal session snippet:
>
> Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.3] [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [async-threads:10]
> [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
>
> Eshell V8.3  (abort with ^G)
> 1> self().
> <0.58.0>
> 2> error(sadface).
> ** exception error: sadface
> 3> self().
> <0.61.0>
>
> So here you can see self() yields different values. Does anybody know
> why it happens the way it happens?
>
> PS Of course I'm not implying there's something wrong with this kind of
> behavior but still it's really interesting.
>
>
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