initializing process

[paweł kamiński]

can somebody corrects me (and hopefully help with my problem).

so the problem is like that
1)Im starting a server in erlang and among others I create one process that
needs to decide if another local computer is up before whole server's
initialization process is done.
2)the process is simple gen_server
(AND HERE IS A PROBLEM)
3)as long as I dont return from init/1 fun, my process is not seen (I cant
really use self() - is that correct??) by others so I CANT RECEIVE ANY
MESSAGES. so I though I can spawn another processes while in init/1 that
will loop and ping another side if it is ready. but I am afraid that there
might be a chance that the gen_server will not yet return from init and
spawned worker will try to send some notification, so or I will miss it or
there will be some error.

is this really a problem or Im just missing something here that is so
obvious.
All I really need is to init state of the gen_server, then start dynamically
initializing the server so I cant hard code all conditions in init fun and I
need to communicate with other processes.

hope it is more or less clear

take care

pozdrawiam
Paweł Kamiński

kamiseq@REDACTED
pkaminski.prv@REDACTED
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