"Process up" notification

[Micael Karlberg]

Check out the service broker by Håkan Mattson.
(The service_broker-1.0 in the user contrib area).

/BMK

Vlad Dumitrescu (EAW) writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Is there a way to get notificated when a process registers with a certain name? I suppose the answer is no, but it might be a cool feature :-)
 > 
 > As an alternative, how costly is to periodically check with erlang:whereis, respectively global:whereis_name, that it has been registered? I don't think it might be a problem to check every 10 seconds or so, but it doesn't hurt to double-check.
 > 
 > Thanks in advance. Regards,
 > Vlad

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