[erlang-questions] Re: Supervisors as factories *and* registries

[Anthony Shipman]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:31:49 am Jay Nelson wrote:
> Write a function that is local to your supervisor (this is  
> conceptual, you need to play with return values, errors, restart vs  
> start, and so on):
>
> launch_child(SupRef, Childspec, ChildKey) ->
>      case supervisor:start_child(Childspec) of
>         {ok, Pid} =
>            ets:insert(?ETS_NAME, {ChildKey, Pid, Childspec}),
>           {ok, Pid};
>         ... other cases ...
>      end.
>
>
> Now you can globally access the ets table to lookup a Childspec or  
> Pid using your own key.  Supervisor is no more complicated and works  
> as is.  You need to make sure your launch_child function doesn't  
> crash the supervisor, so try to make it as simple as possible to do  
> what you need.
>
> jay

But if the child crashes and restarts the pid will be out of date.

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