[erlang-questions] erlang:phash2(make_ref(), 1 bsl 32)

[Matthew Dempsky]

2008/5/8 Per Melin <per.melin@REDACTED>:
> You're right. But for what I need in this particular case it's perfect. It
> only has to be unique per node, and only a few million times. I could even
> use a counter, but then I'd have to have a process on each node just to own
> the counter.

You can create a public ets table and use ets:update_counter to
atomically update it.