Naming Your Processes
Although a PID is displayed as three numbers, it contains just two fields; the first number is the node ID and the next two numbers are the low and high bits of the process ID. When you run a process on your current node, its node ID will always be zero. However, when you export a PID to another node, the node ID is set to the number of the node on which the process lives.
That works well once a system is up and running and everything is knitted together. If you want to register a callback process on one node and an event-generating process on another, just give the callback PID to the generator.
But how can the callback find the generator in the first place? One way is for the generator to register its PID, giving it ...
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