Elixir/ports and External Process Wiring
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The article discusses using Elixir/Phoenix with external processes via Ports, a feature of the Erlang VM, and the author shares their experience and insights on wiring external processes.
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kamma4434
3 months ago
You can have the supervisor kill the linked process by sending a kill signal when it is being killed - see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13909943/killing-a-proce...
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