On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 17:47, Robert Dionne <dio...@dionne-associates.com> wrote: > > > > On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Randall Leeds wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 17:07, Robert Dionne >> <dio...@dionne-associates.com> wrote: >>> couch_file has a close function which presumably does the right thing, but >>> it's only called from couch_db_update:terminate >>> >> >> It just shuts down the process. > > right, I'm just wondering how couch_db_update:terminate is ever called? Does > it receive an EXIT message?
Yeah. It's linked to the couch_db process which is shut down, for example, in couch_server:shutdown_idle_db/3.