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Async call. Cleaned up of PR27 #43

Closed linearregression closed 8 years ago

linearregression commented 8 years ago

Draft implementation of async_call/3, async_call/4, yield/1, nb_yield/1, nb_yield/2.

added tests on local and remote node executions.
new yield_timeout in app.src to set the default timeout for yield because:
* the RPC implementation defaults to infinity which on careless use will hang
* so instead use an explicit setting in config that defaults to infinity to mimic the PRC behavior but makes this timeout less hidden

NB:

same caveat of anonymous function execution on remote node
nb_yield/1 per rpc doc has implicit default timeout of 0. I don't quite know what the use of this API. "flushing?". If so,this is such a bad name.

Clean up of https://github.com/priestjim/gen_rpc/pull/27