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child_process: emit IPC messages on next tick
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This commit fixes a regression related to IPC 'message'
events. When messages are not emitted in the next tick,
a 'message' handler that throws can break the IPC read
loop.

Refs: #6909
Refs: #13459
Refs: #13648
PR-URL: #13856
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Santiago Gimeno <santiago.gimeno@gmail.com>
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cjihrig authored and addaleax committed Jul 18, 2017
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18 changes: 7 additions & 11 deletions lib/internal/child_process.js
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Expand Up @@ -456,7 +456,6 @@ function setupChannel(target, channel) {
}
chunks[0] = jsonBuffer + chunks[0];

var nextTick = false;
for (var i = 0; i < numCompleteChunks; i++) {
var message = JSON.parse(chunks[i]);

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// that we deliver the handle with the right message however.
if (isInternal(message)) {
if (message.cmd === 'NODE_HANDLE')
handleMessage(message, recvHandle, true, false);
handleMessage(message, recvHandle, true);
else
handleMessage(message, undefined, true, false);
handleMessage(message, undefined, true);
} else {
handleMessage(message, undefined, false, nextTick);
nextTick = true;
handleMessage(message, undefined, false);
}
}
jsonBuffer = incompleteChunk;
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// Convert handle object
obj.got.call(this, message, handle, function(handle) {
handleMessage(message.msg, handle, isInternal(message.msg), false);
handleMessage(message.msg, handle, isInternal(message.msg));
});
});

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target.emit(event, message, handle);
}

function handleMessage(message, handle, internal, nextTick) {
function handleMessage(message, handle, internal) {
if (!target.channel)
return;

var eventName = (internal ? 'internalMessage' : 'message');
if (nextTick)
process.nextTick(emit, eventName, message, handle);
else
target.emit(eventName, message, handle);

process.nextTick(emit, eventName, message, handle);
}

channel.readStart();
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39 changes: 39 additions & 0 deletions test/parallel/test-child-process-ipc-next-tick.js
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'use strict';
const common = require('../common');
const assert = require('assert');
const cp = require('child_process');
const NUM_MESSAGES = 10;
const values = [];

for (let i = 0; i < NUM_MESSAGES; ++i) {
values[i] = i;
}

if (process.argv[2] === 'child') {
const received = values.map(() => { return false; });

process.on('uncaughtException', common.mustCall((err) => {
received[err] = true;
const done = received.every((element) => { return element === true; });

if (done)
process.disconnect();
}, NUM_MESSAGES));

process.on('message', (msg) => {
// If messages are handled synchronously, throwing should break the IPC
// message processing.
throw msg;
});

process.send('ready');
} else {
const child = cp.fork(__filename, ['child']);

child.on('message', common.mustCall((msg) => {
assert.strictEqual(msg, 'ready');
values.forEach((value) => {
child.send(value);
});
}));
}

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