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File 1025-timer-Don-t-silently-ignore-errors-when-spawning-pro.patch of Package erlang

From 10c49bc70b7b8319b0de9d5bec8f56bed8449b2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gustavsson?= <bjorn@erlang.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:17:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] timer: Don't silently ignore errors when spawning processes

When a timer created by `timer` had expired and it was time to spawn a
process to apply a user function, a `system_limit`
exception (indicating that the limit for the number of processes in
the system had been reached) would be silently ignored.

Since there is not really anything that can be done in this situation,
be sure to terminate the system so that the problem is noticed. Note
that that other parts of OTP don't attempt to cope with the failure to
spawn processes because of a `system_limit` exception.

Fixes #7606
---
 lib/stdlib/src/timer.erl | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/timer.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/timer.erl
index 17c12f2931..efcd74d6db 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/timer.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/timer.erl
@@ -601,12 +601,12 @@ do_apply({erlang, exit, [Name, Reason]}, _) ->
 do_apply({M,F,A}, false) ->
     try spawn(M, F, A)
     of _ -> {ok, spawn}
-    catch _:_ -> error
+    catch error:badarg -> error
     end;
 do_apply({M, F, A}, true) ->
     try spawn_monitor(M, F, A)
     of {_, Ref} -> {ok, {spawn, Ref}}
-    catch _:_ -> error
+    catch error:badarg -> error
     end.
 
 %% Get current time in milliseconds,
-- 
2.35.3

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