[erlang-questions] Intrusive function intercept

[Loïc Hoguin]

do_something() could be added automatically with a parse_transform 
though. Nobody would have to worry about it and the code wouldn't be 
cluttered.

On 10/11/2013 11:19 AM, Tyron Zerafa wrote:
> First - I do not want to clutter my code with /do_something(); /I need
> this perform this call multiple times at different places.
> Second -/ do_something()/ performs some access control logic, /test()
> /is any other function accessing resources. Ideally, developers writing
> /test()/ functions wouldn't have to worry about access control (this
> should be hidden).
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Wes James <comptekki@REDACTED
> <mailto:comptekki@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     Why are you trying to monitor with B.  Why not just do:
>
>     test() ->
>          x(),
>         do_something(),
>          y(),
>          z().
>
>     -wes
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Tyron Zerafa
>     <tyron.zerafa@REDACTED <mailto:tyron.zerafa@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>              I would like to monitor a process and suspend the execution
>         of certain functions to perform some other computation before.
>         For instance consider a process A which executing the following
>         simple function.
>
>         test() ->
>              x(),
>              y(),
>              z().
>
>         I would like to initiate a process, B, that monitors the
>         execution of A.
>         I want B to:
>            1) stop A before function y is executed
>            2) execute some logic
>            3) resumes the execution of A (by executing Y and Z)
>
>         So far, I have been following this post
>         <http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2003-January/006679.html>
>         and managed to determine when the y() function call was being
>         done, but cannot suspend its execution. Any ideas how I can
>         achieve this?
>
>         Thanks
>         Tyron
>
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> Best Regards,
> Tyron Zerafa
>
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