Elixir v1.12.0

Task.Supervisor.async

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async(supervisor, fun, options \\ [])

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async(Supervisor.supervisor(), (() -> any()), Keyword.t()) :: Task.t()

Starts a task that can be awaited on.

The supervisor must be a reference as defined in Supervisor. The task will still be linked to the caller, see Task.async/3 for more information and async_nolink/2 for a non-linked variant.

Raises an error if supervisor has reached the maximum number of children.

Options

  • :shutdown - :brutal_kill if the tasks must be killed directly on shutdown or an integer indicating the timeout value, defaults to 5000 milliseconds.
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async(supervisor, module, fun, args, options \\ [])

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Specs

async(Supervisor.supervisor(), module(), atom(), [term()], Keyword.t()) ::
  Task.t()

Starts a task that can be awaited on.

The supervisor must be a reference as defined in Supervisor. The task will still be linked to the caller, see Task.async/3 for more information and async_nolink/2 for a non-linked variant.

Raises an error if supervisor has reached the maximum number of children.

Options

  • :shutdown - :brutal_kill if the tasks must be killed directly on shutdown or an integer indicating the timeout value, defaults to 5000 milliseconds.