[erlang-questions] [gproc] How to broadcast message to all other processes except self

Barco You barcojie@REDACTED
Tue Dec 4 17:19:43 CET 2012


Thank you for replying. But I tried to use Pid ! Msg, but seemingly can not
receive message as gproc:send(Key, Msg).

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> The function gproc:send/2, when used on a non-unique key, in essence does
> this:
>
>    lists:foreach(fun(Pid) ->
>                                         Pid ! Msg
>                           end, gproc:lookup_pids(Key)),
>
> So you can take that as a starting point, and add a clause that
> pattern-matches on the own pid, and then doesn't send a message in that
> case.
>
> BR,
> Ulf W
>
> On 4 Dec 2012, at 13:21, Barco You wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I use gproc:reg to register all the processes to a KEY and through gproc:send(KEY,
> MSG) I can broadcast message to all the processes, including myself. But
> now I hope to send message to all the other processes except myself. How
> can I do it? Could you please illuminate ? Thank you.
>
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