[erlang-questions] Sending a message to all linked processes

[Robert Virding]

2008/5/29 John M. Nordgaard <archevis@REDACTED>:

> Hi all,
>
> Been looking through the documentation in search of an answer, and have
> not been able to locate one, so I hope I haven't missed the obvious
> here... my Erlang mileage is still nothing to brag about. :-)
>
> I was wondering if there is a simple and straightforward way to send a
> message to all linked processes. Now, I am aware that a process exit
> signal is transmitted in a functionally similar manner, so it seems that
> at least some form of "broadcast to all linked processes" operation exists
> within the runtime. But is it possible to invoke such functionality
> directly from source code?


send_links(Message) ->
    {link,Links} = process_info(self(), links),
    lists:foreach(fun (P) -> P ! Message end, Links).

Robert
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