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#The gproc application#

The gproc application

Extended process dictionary

##Introduction## . Authors: Ulf Wiger (ulf.wiger@erlang-consulting.com), Joseph Wayne Norton (norton@geminimobile.com).Extended process dictionary

##Introduction##

Gproc was first introduced at the ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop in Freiburg 2007 (Paper available here).

This application was designed to meet the following requirements:

A process can register itself using any term. A process can register more than one name A process can publish non-unique {Key,Value} 'properties' The registry must be efficiently searchable

As additional features, the registry was designed to allow global registration, and a special {Key,Value} property called a counter. It is also possible to create an 'aggregate counter', which will continuously reflect the sum of all counters with the same name.

_In its current state, the global registration facility is brokenand should not be used. It will be migrated over to a new version of genleader. This work will be done with low priority unless peopleexpress a strong urge to use this functionality.

##Modules##

gproc

gproc_app

gproc_dist

gproc_init

gproc_lib

gproc_sup