[erlang-questions] spawn race condition?

[Anthony Shipman]

I have code that looks like this:

call(Phone) ->
    Pid = spawn(?MODULE, init, [Phone]),

    util:delay(100),
    Pid! {startCall, self()},
    receive
	callComplete -> {ok, Pid}
    after
	5000 -> false
    end.

If I don't have the 100ms delay then the only message that the new process 
receives is the integer 0. It works with the delay. Am I missing something?
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