[erlang-questions] Process not receiving first message when using driver_send_term()?

[Yousef A]

I've been trying to add features to liberlua, but I ran into this wall.
 I'm running a port_command on Erlang and receiving it with outputv in the
driver, but not all driver_send_terms are received by the calling process.
 I'm using R15B03 (erts-5.9.3.1)

This is the driver entry:

static ErlDrvEntry lua_driver_entry = {

    NULL,                             /* init */
    start,                            /* startup */
    stop,                             /* shutdown */
    NULL,                             /* output */
    NULL,                             /* ready_input */
    NULL,                             /* ready_output */
    "liberlua",                       /* the name of the driver */
    NULL,                             /* finish */
    NULL,                             /* handle */
    NULL,                             /* control */
    NULL,                             /* timeout */
    process,                          /* outputv */
    NULL,                             /* ready_async */
    NULL,                             /* flush */
    NULL,                             /* call */
    NULL,                             /* event */
    ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MARKER,          /* ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MARKER */
    ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MAJOR_VERSION,   /* ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MAJOR_VERSION */
    ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MINOR_VERSION,   /* ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MINOR_VERSION */
    ERL_DRV_FLAG_USE_PORT_LOCKING     /* ERL_DRV_FLAGs */
};

And the process function:

static void process(ErlDrvData handle, ErlIOVec *ev)
{
  lua_drv_t *driver_data = (lua_drv_t*) handle;

  ErlDrvTermData spec[] = {
  ERL_DRV_ATOM, driver_mk_atom((char*) "testing")
  };


  //send 3 requests and see how many the process receives.

  driver_send_term(driver_data->port, driver_caller(driver_data->port),
spec, sizeof(spec) / sizeof(spec[0]));
  driver_send_term(driver_data->port, driver_caller(driver_data->port),
spec, sizeof(spec) / sizeof(spec[0]));
  driver_send_term(driver_data->port, driver_caller(driver_data->port),
spec, sizeof(spec) / sizeof(spec[0]));

}

And for Erlang, it's a gen_server:

handle_info(Info, State) ->
 io:format("~n~n========game sent bogus msg============~n ~p ~n~n", [Info]),
{noreply, State}.


When run, this is what the Erlang process prints out:

========game sent bogus msg============
 testing



========game sent bogus msg============
 testing




And that's it, only 2 messages when 3 driver_send_term() requests are
called.  I must have missed something, because I don't see anyone else
complaining about this problem.

Thanks!

--Yousef
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