[erlang-questions] Registered names and pids

[Michael McDaniel]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:59:57PM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Maybe I shouldn't need to know this, but I can't find any obvious way: 
> is it possible, given the name of a registered process, to find its pid: 
> a) on the same nod b) on another node?
> _______________________________________________

 
  see modules global and erlang

  e.g. ...

(fu@REDACTED)53> global:registered_names().
[mail_block_gserver,
 zadora_block_gserver,
 xq02_block_gserver,
 autosys_alarm,
 cougora_block_gserver]
(fu@REDACTED)54> global:whereis_name(mail_block_gserver). 
<5656.288.0>
(fu@REDACTED)55> global:whereis_name(autosys_alarm).     
<5447.76.0>
(fu@REDACTED)56> self().
<0.8952.0>
(fu@REDACTED)57> erlang:registered().
[auth,
 net_sup,
 net_kernel,
 kernel_sup,
 application_controller, ... ]
(fu@REDACTED)58> erlang:whereis(net_sup).
<0.17.0>


~Michael



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