[erlang-questions] Dispcount resource identification during init

[Fred Hebert]

On 07/19, Edmond Begumisa wrote:
>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?
>

Each process registers itself, so you should be able to find that 
information from process_info(self()). Otherwise, nothing is passed 
explicitly to the callback.

I'm figuring this might be enough to get going.

>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).
>

It is, for all intents and purposes, a complete library. There has not 
been bug reports nor feature requests, so it is stable.

If someone were to report bugs, I would probably try and fix them, but 
it's been pretty calm and stable for the last 4 years. I haven't used or 
tried to use it (my work has moved to systems with different 
requirements) recently, but I'm still fine maintaining it.

If someone has a plan to improve the libs, I'd be fine handing control 
over, though.