Determining if process is alive on a different node

[Serge Aleynikov]

node(Pid) returns the node that owns the Pid.

Node = node(),
case node(Pid) of
Node -> local;
_    -> remote
end.


Joel Reymont wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I have a pid but I don't know if it's a local one. How would I  
> determine if the process is alive?
> 
> I'm storing pids in a Mnesia table in a multi-node environment and  the 
> node that hosted the process might have died. Rather than  tracking node 
> crashes I was wondering if there was an idiomatic way  of figuring out 
> if a process is alive.
> 
> My understanding is that I can only use is_process_alive for local  
> processes.
> 
>     Thanks, Joel
> 
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