[erlang-questions] buffered io:format in the shell

[Serge Aleynikov]

Hi,

I have a driver that delivers messages to a gen_server process using 
driver_output function.  On the Erlang side the messages are received in 
the form:

handle_info({Port, {data, Data}}, #state{port=Port} = State) ->
     case binary_to_term(Data) of
     {msg, Subj, [], Msg} ->
         io:format("To: ~s, Msg: ~s~n", [Subj, Msg]);
     Other ->
         error_log:error_msg("Unknown msg from port: ~p~n", [Other])
     end,
     {noreply, State};


The communication between the driver and Erlang process seems to work 
fine with the exception that the result of io:format/2 call doesn't get 
printed to the shell immediately after the message from driver is 
received.  It gets printed only after I hit the <Enter> key on the 
keyboard.  Any idea why?

Serge