delayed child restart with incremental back-off

[Nicolas Martyanoff]

zxq9 <zxq9@REDACTED> writes:

> You don't have to implement your own supervisor to get this kind of behavior,
> simply move connection out of initialization. As a general rule initialization
> should never be dependent on anything outside your node's control --
> especially not something across the network.
I do not know why there is such a focus on initialization. Errors can
occurs during the entire lifecycle of a process; it is common to end up
in a situation where a worker will fail *after* initialization, and this
failure will repeat due to external consequences or to a coding mistake.
In that situation, initialization tricks will not help you: the process
will crash N times in a row, filling the logs with duplicate error
messages, then the entire program will die. This is not acceptable for a
server.

Writing smart children works fine of course, I have written this kind of
logic for panic recovery in Go dozens of times. Until you realize you
are re-writing the exact same logic everywhere. If only we had an
abstraction designed to handle this kind of restart; some kind of
process which would, you know, supervise others and restart them in a
configurable way.

-- 
Nicolas Martyanoff
http://snowsyn.net
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