[erlang-questions] Erlang deamon question

[Steve Vinoski]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Nicholas Frechette <zeno490@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
> Supposed I had a single erlang application running as a deamon/service in a
> VM.
> What would be the best way to communicate with it with a command line
> application, keeping in mind I could have any number of them running at the
> same time.
> I am under the impression that I cannot reuse the built in erlang node
> communication protocol (erl -name foobar) and rpc:call mainly because I
> would have to generate random names for my client applications every time it
> is ran, and that could pollute the atom pool of the service. Note also that
> I can trust the clients and am not concerned about security here.
>
> I presume I am stuck implementing a socket based rpc module? Is there
> something already done for this in erlang? I really would love to just reuse
> erlang terms in my arguments/return values. I am unlikely to have clients in
> other languages but cross language usage could be a plus.

Maybe http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_call.html could help?

--steve