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Alexey Lebedeff
c00d17aae3 epmd: Introduce erlang port mapper daemon service
Having socket-activated epmd means that there always be only a single
instance managed centrally. Because Erlang also starts it
automatically if not available, and in worst case scenario 'epmd' can
be started by some Erlang application running under systemd. And then
restarting this application unit will cause complete loss of names in
'epmd' (if other Erlang system are also installed on this host).

E.g. see at which lengths RabbitMQ goes to recover from such
situations:
7741b37b1e/src/rabbit_epmd_monitor.erl (L36)

Having the only one socket-activated epmd completely solves this
problem.
2018-07-19 17:32:29 +02:00