[erlang-questions] Dispcount resource identification during init

[Edmond Begumisa]

Hello all,

Any dispcount[1] users out there? Your assistance on two questions would  
be appreciated..

a) During init function of the callback module implementing the dispcount  
behaviour, I would like to know resource number assigned to that process.  
Is this possible?

The reason is: each of my resources (port programs) need to be initialised  
to use separate directories for storage. For example: "priv/rc1/data",  
"priv/rc2/data", etc. If the dispcount sup restarts resource 1 for  
instance, I would like resource 1 to always use "priv/rc1/data". There  
should be no possibility two or more resources ending up being initialised  
to the same dir due to sup restarts.

The identifier doesn't have to be a number. But if the node/machine  
restarts, the same directories should be used.

b) Is this library still active? One feature mentioned on the todo list  
would be nice to have for our purposes (dynamically growing/shrinking the  
number of resources).

Thanks in advance.

- Edmond -

[1] https://github.com/ferd/dispcount

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