Non-unique process names in observer

Roger Lipscombe roger@REDACTED
Fri Jul 9 10:55:04 CEST 2021


On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 13:13, Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED> wrote:
[snip]
> Lukas pointed out that adding more information to the PID term was a
> lot of work, but suggested extending proc_lib to add further metadata
> that could be displayed by observer.

[snip]
> In the short term, I think the easiest option might be to make the
> changes to observer, document it appropriately, and then just
> encourage library authors to put('$process_label', MyLabel) wherever
> it seems sensible.

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/5039


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