Supervisor as process registry

[Lennart Ohman]

Hi Ivan,
If your are "only" planning on using already existing functionality
in the supervisors, I can't see any objective reason why not.
But do not extend the supervisors to do other work. In the
supervision model supervisors must be correct for it to work.
Meaning that there can not be any errors in their code. If
you modify their behaviour, you risk introducing faults.

Best Regards,
Lennart

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED [mailto:owner-erlang-
> questions@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Dubrov
> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:53 AM
> To: Erlang Questions
> Subject: Supervisor as process registry
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A theoretical question. Is it OK from the point of design to use
> supervisor process as a process registry (in other words, as a mapping
> between some ServiceId -> Service), so worker processes can lookup other
> workers from it?
> 
> --
> WBR,
> Ivan S. Dubrov