parent()

Thomas Lindgren thomasl_erlang@REDACTED
Mon Aug 30 17:10:37 CEST 2004


Given that it is fairly frequent to pass self() to a
child process, let me propose that we instead extend
the BIFs with 

   parent()

which returns the PID of my parent process. (If parent
no longer exists, a "dead" PID may be used.)

Best,
Thomas



		
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