When sending a socket to a child process via IPC pipe,
`child_process.js` picks a raw UV handle from `_handle` property, sends
it, and assigns `null` to the property. Sending the same socket twice
was resulting in a runtime error, since we weren't handling the empty
`_handle` case.
In case of `null` `_handle` we should send just a plain text message
as passed it was passed to `.send()` and ignore the handle, letting
users handle such cases themselves instead of throwing the error at
runtime.
fix#5469
This implements the user-facing APIs that lets one run a child process
and block until it exits.
Logic shared with the async counterpart of each function was refactored
to enable code reuse.
Docs and tests are included.
Spawn's arguments were documented to be optional, as they are for the
other similar child_process APIs, but the code was missing. Result was
`child_process.spawn('node', {})` errored when calling slice() on an
Object, now it behaves as the documentation said it would.
1. Swallow errors when sending internal NODE_HANDLE_ACK messages, so
they don't crash the process.
2. Queue process.disconnect() if there are any pending queued messages.
Fixes test-child-process-fork-net2.js on win.
After the uv upgrade, uv_spawn will now fail faster for certain
failures like ENOENT. However, our tests and other people may be
depending on that error being passed to the callback instead of a
throw.
There's no need to create a new Buffer instance if we're just going to
immediately call toString() at the end anyway. Better to create a
string up front, and setEncoding() on the streams, and do a string
concatenation instead.
Libuv now returns errors directly. Make everything in src/ and lib/
follow suit.
The changes to lib/ are not strictly necessary but they remove the need
for the abominations that are process._errno and node::SetErrno().
Commit 9352c19 ("child_process: don't emit same handle twice") trades
one bug for another.
Before said commit, a handle was sometimes delivered with messages it
didn't belong to.
The bug fix introduced another bug that needs some explaining. On UNIX
systems, handles are basically file descriptors that are passed around
with the sendmsg() and recvmsg() system calls, using auxiliary data
(SCM_RIGHTS) as the transport.
node.js and libuv depend on the fact that none of the supported systems
ever emit more than one SCM_RIGHTS message from a recvmsg() syscall.
That assumption is something we should probably address someday for the
sake of portability but that's a separate discussion.
So, SCM_RIGHTS messages are never coalesced. SCM_RIGHTS and normal
messages however _are_ coalesced. That is, recvmsg() might return this:
recvmsg(); // { "message-with-fd", "message", "message" }
The operating system implicitly breaks pending messages along
SCM_RIGHTS boundaries. Most Unices break before such messages but Linux
also breaks _after_ them. When the sender looks like this:
sendmsg("message");
sendmsg("message-with-fd");
sendmsg("message");
Then on most Unices the receiver sees messages arriving like this:
recvmsg(); // { "message" }
recvmsg(); // { "message-with-fd", "message" }
The bug fix in commit 9352c19 assumes this behavior. On Linux however,
those messages can also come in like this:
recvmsg(); // { "message", "message-with-fd" }
recvmsg(); // { "message" }
In other words, it's incorrect to assume that the file descriptor is
always attached to the first message. This commit makes node wise up.
Fixes#5330.
Don't scan the whole string for a "NODE_" substring, just check that
the string starts with the expected prefix.
This is a reprise of dbbfbe7 but this time for the child_process
module.
It's possible to read multiple messages off the parent/child channel.
When that happens, make sure that recvHandle is cleared after emitting
the first message so it doesn't get emitted twice.
In process#send() and child_process.ChildProcess#send(), use 'utf8' as
the encoding instead of 'ascii' because 'ascii' mutilates non-ASCII
input. Correctly handle partial character sequences by introducing
a StringDecoder.
Sending over UTF-8 no longer works in v0.10 because the high bit of
each byte is now cleared when converting a Buffer to ASCII. See
commit 96a314b for details.
Fixes#4999 and #5011.
child.send can send net servers and sockets. Now that we have support
for dgram clusters this functionality should be extended to include
dgram sockets.
Keeping list of all sockets that were sent to child process causes memory
leak and thus unacceptable (see #4587). However `server.close()` should
still work properly.
This commit introduces two options:
* child.send(socket, { track: true }) - will send socket and track its status.
You should use it when you want to receive `close` event on sent sockets.
* child.send(socket) - will send socket without tracking it status. This
performs much better, because of smaller number of RTT between master and
child.
With both of these options `server.close()` will wait for all sent
sockets to get closed.
Keeping list of all sockets that were sent to child process causes memory
leak and thus unacceptable (see #4587). However `server.close()` should
still work properly.
This commit introduces two options:
* child.send(socket, { track: true }) - will send socket and track its status.
You should use it when you want `server.connections` to be a reliable
number, and receive `close` event on sent sockets.
* child.send(socket) - will send socket without tracking it status. This
performs much better, because of smaller number of RTT between master and
child.
With both of these options `server.close()` will wait for all sent
sockets to get closed.
Allows for arbitrary path to executable spawned using `fork`. This
fixes some issues around running multiple versions of node with workers
and allows arbitrary IPC with compatible executables.
Fixes#3248.
A child process created with .fork() needed to call `process.exit()` explicitly
because the communication channel with the parent kept the event loop alive.
Fix that by only ref'ing the channel when there are 'message' event listeners.
Fixes#3799.
With this patch the IPC socket is no longer available in the
ChildProcess.stdio array. This shouldn't be very problematic, since
this socket was effectively non-functional; it would never emit any
events.
This commit reverts the following commits (in reverse chronological order):
74d076c errnoException must be done immediately
ddb02b9 net: support Server.listen(Pipe)
085a098 cluster: do not use internal server API
d138875 net: lazy listen on handler
Commit d138875 introduced a backwards incompatible change that broke the
simple/test-net-socket-timeout and simple/test-net-lazy-listen tests - it
defers listening on the target port until the `net.Server` instance has at
least one 'connection' event listener.
The other patches had to be reverted in order to revert d138875.
Fixes#3832.
Previously, a command with a short stdio array would result in the child's
stdout and stderr objects set to null. For example:
var c = child_process.spawn(cmd, args, {stdio: ['pipe']});
// results in c.stdout === null.
The expected behavior is the above line functioning the same as this one:
var c = child_process.spawn(cmd, args, {stdio: ['pipe', null, null]});
// provides correct (non-null) c.stdout; as does the above, after this fix.
* V8: Upgrade to v3.11.10
* npm: Upgrade to 1.1.26
* doc: Improve cross-linking in API docs markdown (Ben Kelly)
* Fix#3425: removeAllListeners should delete array (Reid Burke)
* cluster: don't silently drop messages when the write queue gets big (Bert Belder)
* Add Buffer.concat method (isaacs)
* windows: make symlinks tolerant to forward slashes (Bert Belder)
* build: Add node.d and node.1 to installer (isaacs)
* cluster: rename worker.unqiueID to worker.id (Andreas Madsen)
* Windows: Enable ETW events on Windows for existing DTrace probes. (Igor Zinkovsky)
* test: bundle node-weak in test/gc so that it doesn't need to be downloaded (Nathan Rajlich)
* Make many tests pass on Windows (Bert Belder)
* Fix#3388 Support listening on file descriptors (isaacs)
* Fix#3407 Add os.tmpDir() (isaacs)
* Unbreak the snapshotted build on Windows (Bert Belder)
* Clean up child_process.kill throws (Bert Belder)
* crypto: make cipher/decipher accept buffer args (Ben Noordhuis)
* When the process is already dead, but the `exit` signal wasn't raised
yet, the ESRCH error should be ignored.
* When an invalid signal is specified, kill() should throw.
* Like process.kill(), child_process.kill() now preserves a `0` signal
which can be used to check the liveliness of the child process.
* process.kill() and child_process.kill() will now return true if the
signal was actually delivered, and false otherwise.
* When an `exec`-ed process is automatically killed because a time or
buffer limit is exceeded, and the kill() fails, this error should be
reported through the `exec` callback.
Fixes: #3409
Fedor Indutny
Timothy J Fontaine
Sam Roberts
Alexis Campailla
isaacs
Seth Fitzsimmons
Brian White
Ben Noordhuis
Trevor Norris
Andreas Madsen
Scott Blomquist
Bert Belder
Maciej Małecki
Bradley Meck
Tyler Neylon
Tom Hughes-Croucher