[erlang-questions] supervisor children's pid

[Robert Virding]

After the supervisor has started a child server won't it then be running completely unsynchronised with the supervisor? In that case how will a server know that all the other servers have been started?

Robert

----- "Vance Shipley" <vances@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:37:02AM +0200, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
> }  currently, i'm calling supervisor:which_children/1 on the init
> function of
> }  the gen_servers, and match the Ids to get the Child [Pid].
> 
> You can't call the supervisor from the init function of one of it's
> own children.  You have to return from init/1 before that is
> possible.
> 
> What you can do is to return {ok, State, Timeout} from init/1 with
> a Timeout value of 0 and go on with the initialization after the
> supervisor has completed starting the children.  The attached example
> uses a psuedo state to carry on with the initialization:
> 
>      1> supervisor:start_link(which_sup, []).
>      Server=1, Siblings=[<0.36.0>,<0.35.0>]
>      Server=2, Siblings=[<0.36.0>,<0.34.0>]
>      Server=3, Siblings=[<0.35.0>,<0.34.0>]
>      {ok,<0.33.0>}
> 
> }  is this the best strategy to achieve this?
> 
> Yes, use supervisor:which_children/1 to learn the siblings.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 	-Vance
> 
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