rpc

rpc

Module

rpc

Module summary

Remote Procedure Call services.

Description

This module contains services similar to Remote Procedure Calls. It also contains broadcast facilities and parallel evaluators. A remote procedure call is a method to call a function on a remote node and collect the answer. It is used for collecting information on a remote node, or for running a function with some specific side effects on the remote node.

Data types

key()

As returned by async_call/4.

Exports

abcast(Name, Msg) -> abcast

Types:

Name = atom()
Msg = term()

Equivalent to abcast([node()|nodes()], Name, Msg).

abcast(Nodes, Name, Msg) -> abcast