[erlang-questions] Is supervisor notified when child is restarted?

[Sean Cribbs]

Woops, forgot to include the link:

[1] http://erlang.org/doc/man/pg2.html

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Sean Cribbs <seancribbs@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> It sounds like you need either to use either registered names, process
> groups, or the one_for_all strategy. Registered processes are the easiest
> way, you can simply refer to them by the atom -- but you must expect that
> sometimes messages will be lost if the process is restarting. Alternately,
> if you change this supervisor's strategy to one_for_all you will ensure
> that every process always has the correct state (assuming it already starts
> up in the correct state), but existing work from non-failed processes can
> be lost. For process groups, you can use pg2 [1] which comes with OTP, or
> there are several alternate implementations available on github, but
> messaging the other processes in this small group will incur additional
> overhead.
>
> Each solution has tradeoffs, I hope that helps you decide which one to use.
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Martin Koroudjiev <
> mrtndimitrov@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am wondering how can I get notified when a child process is restarted?
>> Imagine this simple scenario - supervisor with one_for_one strategy and
>> 3 gen_servers as workers. Each in its state has the PIDs of the other 2
>> and sends them messages. Now if one child gets restarted, the other 2
>> will have the old PID. How can I notify them?
>>
>> I can't restart the whole supervision tree because the number of child
>> processes is buried deep in the initialization logic of the application.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
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