[erlang-questions] Shared ETS Access

[Ulf Wiger]

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Jachym Holecek wrote:
> 
> No, "it will only pass if reads are done _carefully_" is more like it.
> You'd probably hide all the raw ETS manipulation behind the API of your
> module, so you're free to employ some particular access protocol and
> there are assumptions you could make.
> 
> Pity I can't point at some opensource example of this sort of thing...

If you look at gproc,

http://svn.ulf.wiger.net/gproc/branches/experimental-0906/gproc/src/gproc.erl

you can see (after deciphering some of the extra complexity) how name
lookups are done in the calling process (gproc:where/1), whereas
registrations are done in the central gen_server.

For registrations, properties (where only the {Name,Pid} pair is
unique, and processes can only register their own properties), can be
written directly from the calling process, whereas unique names must
be written in the central gen_server process.

BR,
Ulf W
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