Erlang Language Processes Creating Processes
Example
We create a new concurrent process by calling the spawn function. The spawn function will get as parameter a function Fun that the process will evaluate. The return value of the spawn function is the created process identifier (pid).
1> Fun = fun() -> 2+2 end.
#Fun<erl_eval.20.52032458>
2> Pid = spawn(Fun).
<0.60.0>
You can also use spawn/3 to start a process that will execute a specific function from a module: spawn(Module, Function, Args).
Or use spawn/2 or spawn/4 similarly to start a process in a different node: spawn(Node, Fun) or spawn(Node, Module, Function, Args).
