Elixir Blog Post: The many and varied ways to kill an OTP Process

[paulanthonywilson]

@the_wildgoose

Just one point: I think there is a further difference in behaviour if the process doing the killing is the direct parent of the child? I’m actually not sure I understand the specifics, but there was a post on elixirforum a month or so back about this and the insight was that the child can’t catch it’s own exit if the thing sending the message is the direct parent?

I don’t really follow. I am not sure I’ve seen the concept of parent/children in processes (beyond that a supervisor starts and supervises it’s children). Anyone?

Thanks though. I have just pushed up a post on what happens when a linked process exits.