[erlang-questions] How to fork/clone a process in Erlang?

[Xiao Jia]

In other words, for ` f(); fork(); g(); ` , I wonder if it is possible to
implement fork() just as is used here, i.e. without passing any
parameters/arguments to fork().

2012/9/7 Xiao Jia <stfairy@REDACTED>

> Well, this is kind of different from what I'm thinking about.
>
> The function g() here is just a symbolic stuff, standing for the
> remaining control flows.
>
> Suppose we want to implement a function, split(), which is to create two
> identical processes on invocation. We may use fork() inside split(). But
> from the user's perspective, he just calls split(). As we write the
> split() function, we cannot assume (actually we are unable to know) what
> is g().
>
> 2012/9/7 Rich Neswold <rich.neswold@REDACTED>
>
>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Xiao Jia <stfairy@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > Of course in your example the control flow is cloned as you also loop
>> in the
>> > spawn fun.
>> > But what I want is a more general case. Take the following C code as an
>> > example.
>> >
>> > f();
>> > fork();
>> > g();
>> >
>> > Here the return value of fork() is ignored, so the next steps of both
>> the
>> > parent and the child
>> > process are the same, which is to execute g(). Can I achieve this in
>> Erlang?
>>
>> How about:
>>
>> f(),
>> spawn(g),
>> g().
>>
>> --
>> Rich
>>
>
>
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