"Process up" notification

[Vlad Dumitrescu (EAW)]

Thanks, I haven't been thinking about service-broker, even if I used it once. In practice I must be non-intrusive on the monitored process, so I might have to just spawn a process that does the checking once in a while. 

Since my process of interest is in a supervision hierarchy, it would have been nice if supervisor would have provided such functionality.

(Now I know this is a small thing and relatively easy to fix, but maybe it shows up that this is of broader interest)
Regards,
Vlad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micael Karlberg [mailto:micael.karlberg@REDACTED]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:32 PM
> To: Vlad Dumitrescu (EAW)
> Cc: Erlang-questions (E-mail)
> Subject: "Process up" notification
> 
> 
> Check out the service broker by Håkan Mattson.
> (The service_broker-1.0 in the user contrib area).
> 
> /BMK
> 
> Vlad Dumitrescu (EAW) writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > Is there a way to get notificated when a process registers 
> with a certain name? I suppose the answer is no, but it might 
> be a cool feature :-)
>  > 
>  > As an alternative, how costly is to periodically check 
> with erlang:whereis, respectively global:whereis_name, that 
> it has been registered? I don't think it might be a problem 
> to check every 10 seconds or so, but it doesn't hurt to double-check.
>  > 
>  > Thanks in advance. Regards,
>  > Vlad
> 
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