
<h2><a href="#linking-to-remote-processes" name="linking-to-remote-processes"></a>Linking to Remote Processes</h2>
<p>Erlang defines a concept known as linked processes. A link is an implicit connection between two processes that causes an exception to be raised in one of the processes if the other process terminates for any reason. Links are bidirectional: it does not matter which of the two processes created the link or which of the linked processes eventually terminates; an exception will be raised in t