// Open a chain of five Node processes each a child of the next. The final // process exits immediately. Each process in the chain is instructed to // exit when its child exits. // https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/1726 var common = require('../common'); var assert = require('assert'); var ch = require('child_process'); var gen = +(process.argv[2] || 0); var maxGen = 5; if (gen === maxGen) { console.error('hit maxGen, exiting', maxGen); return; } var child = ch.spawn(process.execPath, [__filename, gen + 1], { stdio: [ 'ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore' ] }); assert.ok(!child.stdin); assert.ok(child.stdout); assert.ok(!child.stderr); console.error('gen=%d, pid=%d', gen, process.pid); /* var timer = setTimeout(function () { throw new Error('timeout! gen='+gen); }, 1000); */ child.on('exit', function(code) { console.error('exit %d from gen %d', code, gen + 1); //clearTimeout(timer); }); child.stdout.pipe(process.stdout); child.stdout.on('close', function() { console.error('child.stdout close gen=%d', gen); });