[erlang-questions] gen_server init returns {stop, Reason} and fails: possibly doc bug?

[Brujo Benavides]

You’re correct.
To be able to use the result of gen_server:start_link you must be trapping exits.
I wrote a blog post <https://medium.com/erlang-battleground/the-unstoppable-exception-9dfb009852f5> about it a while back.
Cheers!

> On May 2, 2017, at 11:57, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
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> Here:  http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#start_link-3 <http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#start_link-3>  we can read that start_link will return  {error, Reason} if init callback returns {stop, Reason}
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that it is not possible to get back clean reply, because gen_server.erl  has following code:
> 
> proc_lib:init_ack(Starter, {error, Reason}),  % here we may receive error tuple
> exit(Reason)  
> 
> After exit caller is failing because of linkage. So if we want to have start_link, we cannot get clean logs and clearly get {error, Reason}  tuple.
> 
> Am I wrong?
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