[erlang-questions] spawn race condition?

[Oscar Hellström]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:01:16 +1100
Anthony Shipman <als@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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?

What exactly does init/1 do? You are indeed supposed to be able to send
messages to processes without delays. Are there any other processes
sending the spawned processes if it would return {ok, Pid}? Does init
somehow flush the message queue?

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