[erlang-patches] Extend erlang:port_info/1, 2 to show the OS pid of a spawned process

[Henrik Nord]

Hmm yes this is strange.
according to my notes about the patch, we are waiting for tests and 
documentation for this.

But I can not find a email asking for it, but I do find it to be in the 
dropped patches list.
on the other hand, I was not working here when this all happened, and 
the person who did is not working here now.

So back to the patch, I will consider it if someone is willing to add 
tests and documentation for it. Unless it was dropped due to other 
reasons than missing tests/docs.



On 01/07/2012 11:48 AM, Paul Guyot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The above-mentioned patch was submitted by Matthias Lang in August 2010.
> It has been cooking in pu and was dropped in January 2011. I could not find in archives any discussion about why it was dropped.
>
> http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2010-August/001311.html
> http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2010-August/001313.html
> http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2011-January/001828.html
>
> This patch proves very useful to us and we have been using it for more than a year on production servers running FreeBSD as well as development machines running MacOS X (Matthias mentions he tested it on Linux).
>
> Could you please re-consider it?
>
> To ease the inclusion of the patch, I did update it to base it on master, added documentation, updated types, and fixed dialyzer's test accordingly. (I am not sure if master is the proper base for this case).
>
> You can fetch the updated version from github:
>
> git fetch git://github.com/pguyot/otp.git add-os-pid-to-port-info
> https://github.com/pguyot/otp/commit/1acd27e159506b662f3b4222ba4c5820b463588a
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul

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