How Erlang Starts
When Erlang starts, it reads a boot file and executes the
commands that it finds in the boot file. Eight Erlang modules
are preloaded. These are Erlang modules that have been compiled
into C and linked into the Erlang virtual machine. These eight
modules are responsible for booting the system. They include
init.erl, which reads and evaluates commands in the
boot file, and erl_prim_loader, which knows how to load
code into the system.
The boot file contains a binary that was created by calling
term_to_binary(Script), where Script is a tuple
containing a boot script.
We’re going to make a new boot file called see.boot and
a script called see, which launches a program using the new boot file. The boot file will load a small ...
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