Elixir/Ports and external process wiring: Difference between revisions
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== Problem: runaway processes == | == Problem: runaway processes == | ||
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What this means is that rsync transfers would continue to run in the background even after Elixir had completely shut down, because the BEAM | What this means is that rsync transfers would continue to run in the background even after Elixir had completely shut down, because the BEAM has no way of stopping the process. | ||
To check whether this was something specific to rsync, I tried the | To check whether this was something specific to rsync, I tried to open a Port spawning the command <code>sleep 60</code> and I found that it behaves exactly the same way, hanging until the sleep ends naturally regardless of what happened in Elixir or whether its pipes are still open. | ||
== Bad assumption: pipe-like processes == | == Bad assumption: pipe-like processes == | ||