blatyo
What happens if you supervise a supervisor as a worker?
In this section of the docs, it mentions that you can specify a type in the child spec for either worker or supervisor. As the question in the title implies, what would be the consequences of picking the wrong one?
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easco
Looking at the Erlang code:
https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/stdlib/src/supervisor.erl
It appears that the process type is used to define the default “Shutdown Value” if none is given (see “Shutdown Values” in Supervisor — Elixir v1.20.2)
It also appears that the type is used when you call Supervior.count_children which tells you how many of which type of child a supervisor has.
The type is also returned by Supervisor.which_children
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It also affects code upgrading.
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