Concurrency in Functions and Messages

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

Eduardo,

the called function is run in the context of the calling process. A module
is just a container for some code and it exports some functions. If you are
familiar with C, calling io:format is the same as calling printf.

cheers
Chandru

-----Original Message-----
From: Inswitch Solutions - Erlang Evaluation [mailto:erlang@REDACTED]
Sent: 21 December 2002 09:12
To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
Subject: Concurrency in Functions and Messages


 
When a process is in receive state (receive -> ....), I understand that
concurrency is managed by a queue in Erlang when other processes send
messages to it.
 
I don't know how Erlang manages functions calls concurrency when
more than one process is calling the same function.
For example io:format(.....) called by two processes at the same time.

Does anyone know something about this ?

Thanks,
Eduardo Figoli
INSwitch Solutions



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