[erlang-questions] Get grandchild pid when using nested supervisors?

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Calling supervisor:start_child(A, []) returns {ok, BPid}, where I
> really want WPid. What's a sensible way to get hold of it?
>

One way, that is really useful is a process registry like gproc. That way,
you can avoid a lot of this "digging for a Pid". It also is faster for
lookup since it uses an ETS table, so you can avoid having the need to
cache pids.


-- 
J.
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