mat-hek
How to start_link a GenServer on an arbitrary node
Hi there,
I’d like to start_link a GenServer like this:
:rpc.call(node, GenServer, :start_link, [MyServer, options])
however, this fails, because the server gets linked to some process started by :rpc.call, not to the process that executes the call. How do I solve this?
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Yeah, I think this would be done easier by using Node.spawn_link. The intermediary process should also trap exits, otherwise, it won’t be notified about exit with the reason :normal. Also, killing the intermediary process wouldn’t immediately kill the target process, as the exit signal can be trapped when it’s not ‘direct’ - this would have to be worked around if needed. As well as probably a couple more quirks I didn’t think of 
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