gen leader

[Bengt Kleberg]

Martin J. Logan wrote:
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>Say I am using
>the gen_leader:leader_call to achieve something if I cannot elect a
>leader even in the trivial case of a single node then I have to do have
>a case statement
>
>case nodes() of
>    []    -> use the standard gen_leader:call
>    Nodes -> use the gen_leader:leader_call
>end,
>
>I must then also add code to handle these two cases in my gen leader
>callback module. For me it would be easier just to have the leader say
>"oh there is no one else around... well then I am the leader"
>  
>

fwiw: gen_leader is supposed to add safety be beeing redundant.  
currently we know that a successfull selection of a leader assures 
redundancy. if/when a single leader is also successfull, it will then be 
neccessary to find out if there is more than one node.


bengt