require("../common"); var count = 100; var fs = require('fs'); function tryToKillEventLoop() { puts('trying to kill event loop ...'); fs.stat(__filename, function (err) { if (err) { throw new Exception('first fs.stat failed') } else { puts('first fs.stat succeeded ...'); fs.stat(__filename, function (err) { if (err) { throw new Exception('second fs.stat failed') } else { puts('second fs.stat succeeded ...'); puts('could not kill event loop, retrying...'); setTimeout(function () { if (--count) { tryToKillEventLoop(); } else { process.exit(0); } }, 1); } }); } }); } // Generate a lot of thread pool events var pos = 0; fs.open('/dev/zero', "r", 0666, function (err, fd) { if (err) throw err; function readChunk () { fs.read(fd, 1024, pos, 'binary', function (err, chunk, bytesRead) { if (err) throw err; if (chunk) { pos += bytesRead; //puts(pos); readChunk(); } else { fs.closeSync(fd); throw new Exception('/dev/zero should not end before the issue shows up'); } }); } readChunk(); }); tryToKillEventLoop(); process.addListener("exit", function () { assert.ok(pos > 10000); });