Monitor owner of the connection

The connection process should monitor the process that started it
and die with the same reason that the owner process did.
This should solve the issue of zombie connections laying around
after the processes that started them die.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/exirc/client.ex b/lib/exirc/client.ex
index cde4f1a..81a2f0a 100644
--- a/lib/exirc/client.ex
+++ b/lib/exirc/client.ex
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ defmodule ExIrc.Client do
               channels:         [],
               debug?:           false,
               retries:          0,
-              inet:             :inet
+              inet:             :inet,
+              owner:            nil
   end
 
   #################
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ defmodule ExIrc.Client do
   """
   @spec start_link(options :: list() | nil, process_opts :: list() | nil) :: {:ok, pid} | {:error, term}
   def start_link(options \\ [], process_opts \\ []) do
+    options = Keyword.put_new(options, :owner, self())
     GenServer.start_link(__MODULE__, options, process_opts)
   end
   @doc """
@@ -285,17 +287,20 @@ defmodule ExIrc.Client do
   def init(options \\ []) do
     autoping = Keyword.get(options, :autoping, true)
     debug    = Keyword.get(options, :debug, false)
+    owner    = Keyword.fetch!(options, :owner)
     # Add event handlers
     handlers =
       Keyword.get(options, :event_handlers, [])
       |> List.foldl([], &do_add_handler/2)
+    ref = Process.monitor(owner)
     # Return initial state
     {:ok, %ClientState{
       event_handlers: handlers,
       autoping:       autoping,
       logged_on?:     false,
       debug?:         debug,
-      channels:       ExIrc.Channels.init()}}
+      channels:       ExIrc.Channels.init(),
+      owner:          {owner, ref}}}
   end
   @doc """
   Handle calls from the external API. It is not recommended to call these directly.
@@ -497,6 +502,10 @@ defmodule ExIrc.Client do
   def handle_info({:ssl, socket, data}, state) do
     handle_info({:tcp, socket, data}, state)
   end
+  # If the owner process dies, we should die as well
+  def handle_info({:DOWN, ref, _, pid, reason}, %{owner: {pid, ref}} = state) do
+    {:stop, reason, state}
+  end
   # If an event handler process dies, remove it from the list of event handlers
   def handle_info({:DOWN, _, _, pid, _}, state) do
     handlers = do_remove_handler(pid, state.event_handlers)
diff --git a/lib/exirc/exirc.ex b/lib/exirc/exirc.ex
index cfa2654..72be33c 100644
--- a/lib/exirc/exirc.ex
+++ b/lib/exirc/exirc.ex
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ defmodule ExIrc do
   @spec start_client! :: {:ok, pid} | {:error, term}
   def start_client! do
     # Start the client worker
-    Supervisor.start_child(:exirc, [])
+    Supervisor.start_child(:exirc, [[owner: self()]])
   end
 
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