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by coldtea 3727 days ago
>You've done something wrong then?

Well, the idea is with Erlang you can't.
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ssmoot 3727 days ago
I don't believe Erlang goes around magically imposing it's own timeouts on message handling.
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querulous 3727 days ago
it doesn't, but an erlang process that is waiting on a message won't block other processes from running ever
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coldtea 3726 days ago
The magic is called "preemptive multitasking".
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