<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Anton Sizov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.sysoff@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.sysoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is there a problem with start function? You can manually link or monitor pid that start function return. It is more flexible.</blockquote>
</div><br>Supervisors can't link afterwards. They need the spawn_link invocation since they expect to be linked right away automatically. Besides, it is not very Erlang-idiomatic to first spawn then link.<br><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>J.
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