Fix race condition during actor startup sequence #160
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This PR is intended to fix the issue #159.
The race condition occurs when a msg is sent to an actor while it is still processing the actor.Initialized or actor.Started msg. This can easily happen when loading some state from a db when processing one of these startup msgs.
I am proposing that the inbox only be started after the actor has processed all the startup msgs. This requires some changes to the inbox:
I have added a test case to test the proper ordering of msgs under this scenario.