[erlang-questions] monitor/2

[Anthony Ramine]

This sounds like a good idea but with many edge cases.

For starters, there lack a demonitor call with flush option set in the timeout clause.

Then, from what I understand reading your snippet of code, I gather that the message is only sent once, right?

What happens if I call monitor after the name was registered and wait for ‘UP’? Or will it wait for the process to die and the name to be freed to send a ‘DOWN’? In my opinion, this behaves in manner too different from process monitors to reuse the same function.

-- 
Anthony Ramine

Le 16 mars 2014 à 21:26, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> a écrit :

> 
> On 16 mar 2014, at 00:21, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to see (and have been for a long time :):
>> 
>> monitor(name, abc) -> reference()
>> 
>> and then be able get notifications when the name abc is registered and unregistered.
>> 
>> Then notifications could be something like:
>> 
>> {'UP',Ref, name, Pid, abc }
>> {'UP',Ref, name, Port, abc }
>> {'DOWN', Ref, name, Pid, abc}
>> {'DOWN', Ref, name, Port, abc}
>> 
> 
> A comment on my own suggestion:
> 
> The following (ugly) code in user_sup.erl:
> 
> wait_for_user_p(0) ->
>     {error, nouser};
> wait_for_user_p(N) ->
>     case whereis(user) of
> 	Pid when is_pid(Pid) ->
> 	    link(Pid),
> 	    {ok, Pid};
> 	_ ->
> 	    receive after 100 -> ok end,
> 	    wait_for_user_p(N-1)
>     end.
> 
> Could then be replace with:
> 
> wait_for_user_p(N) ->
> 	Timeout = N*100,
> 	Ref = erlang:monitor(name, user),
> 	recieve
> 		{'UP', Ref, name, Pid, user} ->
> 			link(Pid),
> 			{ok, Pid}
> 	after
> 		Timeout ->
> 			{error, nouser}
> 	end	.
> 
> 
>> /Tony
>> 
>> 
>> On 14 mar 2014, at 23:50, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I want to discuss monitor/2.
>>> 
>>> It's been there for a while, and it's always taking 'process' as first argument. Any plans to add anything else? And if nothing is foreseen before the end of times, any plans to add a monitor/1 instead?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
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