Trapping exit reason in Supervisor

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I gave handle_info a try as you commented in the code restart_child/3 is private, there is restart_child/2 version, but in order to use it I need to maintain child_id somewhere.
Couple of questions though:

  1. Is there any disadvantage of using start_link to do restart?
  2. If I add “supervisor in the middle”, i.e. make my root Supervisor) to start “monitoring” Supervisor that in turn would start GenServer process, if GenServer terminates, “monitoring” Supervisor would receive call in handle_info, perform necessary logging and terminate - causing for the root Supervisor to restart it and in turn start GenServer. Is this reasonable?

Thanks