[erlang-questions] Autogenerating node names

[David Sveningsson]

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Zvi wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> This is the code I using:
> 
> 
> start_node(NodeName, Cookie) ->
> 	_Pid = spawn(os,cmd,[os:find_executable("epmd")++" -daemon"]),
> 	%% TODO: find something better than sleeep, to wait until epmd is up
> 	timer:sleep(1000),
> 	{ok, _} = net_kernel:start([to_atom(NodeName), shortnames]),
> 	true = erlang:set_cookie(node(), to_atom(Cookie)).
> 
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %% convert any sensible input argument to atom:
> %%	i.e, atom, binary, list string, deeplist / IO-list
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> to_atom(S) when is_atom(S) -> S;
> to_atom(S) when is_binary(S) -> list_to_atom(binary_to_list(S));
> to_atom(S) when is_list(S) -> 
> 	try list_to_atom(S) of 
> 	    Val -> Val
> 	catch 
> 	    error : _ ->  list_to_atom(binary_to_list(erlang:iolist_to_binary(S)))
> 	end.
> 
> 

Thanks, but I was hoping to be able to skip the timer part. Does anyone
know when epmd forks? Before or after its initialization?

Let me rephrase that, is epmd ready when "epmd -daemon" returns or must
one wait an unspecified time while it is starting?
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