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mscandar at cisco.com
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:21 pm Reply with quote
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Starting a child using a module instance as the module fails:

** exited: {{nocatch,{error,{invalid_mfa,
{{foo,bar,baz},
start_link,
[one,two,three]}}}}

Turns out there are some checks in supervisor.erl that expect a module to be an atom:

validFunc({M, F, A}) when atom(M), atom(F), list(A) -> true;
validFunc(Func) -> throw({invalid_mfa, Func}).


and

validMods(dynamic) -> true;
validMods(Mods) when list(Mods) ->
lists:foreach(fun(Mod) ->
if
atom(Mod) -> ok;
true -> throw({invalid_module, Mod})
end
end,
Mods);
validMods(Mods) -> throw({invalid_modules, Mods}).


I changed them to the following and all is well (so far):

validMods(dynamic) -> true;
validMods(Mods) when list(Mods) -> true;
validMods(Mods) -> throw({invalid_modules, Mods}).

validFunc({M, F, A}) when atom(F), list(A) -> true;
validFunc(Func) -> throw({invalid_mfa, Func}).


Mark.


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