[erlang-questions] Distributed Erlang

[Matthew Evans]

Hi,

I am wanting to create a distributed mesh of Erlang nodes (all nodes will be configured with dist_auto_connect set to false). There could potentially be lots of nodes in the mesh, so to prevent the mesh from getting too big I want to have the ability to disconnect a node. Is this possible?

Something like: net_kernel:disconnect_node('node@foo').

Thanks

Matt

[Matthew Evans]

I guess I can use the undocumented function net_kernel:disconnect/1

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From: mattev...@hotmail.com
To: erlang-q...@erlang.org
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:29:12 -0400
Subject: [erlang-questions] Distributed Erlang

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[Richard Carlsson]

Looking at the source code, disconnect/1 is simply implemented as the
dual to connect_node/1, whereas connect/1 (also undocumented) is doing
some extra stuff on top of what connect_node/1 does. I suggest
submitting a patch that implements net_kernel:disconnect_node/1 as doing
exactly what disconnect/1 does today, and add it to the documentation.
This allows disconnect/1 to stay undocumented so it can be tweaked for
whatever internal purposes OTP are using it for in the future without
affecting user code.

/Richard

On 05/24/2012 12:19 AM, Matthew Evans wrote:
> I guess I can use the undocumented function net_kernel:disconnect/1
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