[erlang-questions] Bug introduced in R15B01 gen_server.erl?

[Sam Bobroff]

Hi All,

After upgrading to R15B01, one of my gen_servers began crashing during start up with {error, timeout_value}. The server is started via gen_server:enter_loop and is globally registerd using a name of this form {global, server_name}.

The reason seems to be these lines in gen_server.erl, which look like a cut-and-paste error:

enter_loop(Mod, Options, State, ServerName = {Scope, _})

  when Scope == local; Scope == local ->

    enter_loop(Mod, Options, State, ServerName, infinity);

Should one of the guards be testing for global?

(I assume enter_loop isn't heavily used!)

Cheers,

Sam.

[Gustav Simonsson]

Hi Sam,

This is indeed a bug.
We will create an internal patch for this.

Thank you for reporting it!

Regards,
Gustav Simonsson
Erlang/OTP team

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