[erlang-questions] Registering a process with multiple names

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

Hi!

2009/1/22 Torben Hoffmann <torben.lehoff@REDACTED>:
> In my ideal world I would like to register the call process with two names:
> one for the legacy call identificator and on for the protocol's call
> identificator.
>
> The problem is that erlang:register/2 barfs if you try to register a process
> more than once.

You could use your own registry, that would keep track of both names
and map them to either a registered name or a pid.

If your process names are dynamically generated, you might want to
avoid using atoms (i.e. erlang:register/2) for them. Your registry
could use any term as name.

regards,
Vlad