Re: delayed child restart with incremental back-off

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 9:27 AM Sean Hinde <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> The current self() ! finish_startup recommendation drops all the startup
> ordering and failure recovery synchronisation on the programmer, and that
> is hard to get right.
>

These aren't current anymore. There is now a 'continue' return option with
a 'handle_continue' handler just for that:
http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#Module:handle_continue-2 -- do
note that gen_statem doesn't require it because the whole FSM mechanism has
even more powerful general mechanisms for that kind of thing.