[erlang-questions] On Per-module process registration

[Ulf Wiger]

Anthony Shipman wrote:
> I have implemented my own kinds of registry. What I don't have is the
> ability to atomically spawn and register a process. Perhaps just
> adding the ability to spawn a process in a paused state and then
> unpause it later would solve that problem.

Like this?


-module(hib).
-export([sp/0,init/0]).

sp() ->
     spawn(fun() ->
                   erlang:hibernate(?MODULE,init,[])
           end).

init() ->
     io:fwrite("ho!~n", []).




1> P=hib:sp().
<0.58.0>
2> timer:sleep(3000), P ! hi.
ho!
hi


BR,
Ulf W

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