[erlang-questions] how to know who is the parent pid of a child pid?
Joe Armstrong
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Wed Apr 3 13:25:07 CEST 2013
Wise sonnes they be in very deede, That knowe their Parents who did them
breede.
‘A shorte dictionarie for yonge begynners’ [John Withals, 1584]
It's not possible. The parent has to pass this information to the child.
Something like:
make_child() ->
S = self(),
spawn(fun() -> start_child(S) end).
start_child(Parent) ->
...
/Joe
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Brisa Jiménez <brisa.jimenez.f@REDACTED>wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have a question:
> How to know who is the parent pid of a child pid?
> Thank you very much!
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