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This commit adds a public channel property to ChildProcess. The
existing _channel property is aliased to the new property, with
the intention of deprecating and removing it in the future.

Fixes: #9313
PR-URL: #9322
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
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cjihrig authored and evanlucas committed Nov 3, 2016
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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions doc/api/child_process.md
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The `'message'` event is triggered when a child process uses [`process.send()`][]
to send messages.

### child.channel
<!-- YAML
added: REPLACEME
-->

* {Object} A pipe representing the IPC channel to the child process.

The `child.channel` property is a reference to the child's IPC channel. If no
IPC channel currently exists, this property is `undefined`.

### child.connected
<!-- YAML
added: v0.7.2
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[`'error'`]: #child_process_event_error
[`'exit'`]: #child_process_event_exit
[`'message'`]: #child_process_event_message
[`child.channel`]: #child_process_child_channel
[`child.connected`]: #child_process_child_connected
[`child.disconnect()`]: #child_process_child_disconnect
[`child.kill()`]: #child_process_child_kill_signal
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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions doc/api/process.md
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'customArgv0'
```

## process.channel
<!-- YAML
added: REPLACEME
-->

If the Node.js process was spawned with an IPC channel (see the
[Child Process][] documentation), the `process.channel`
property is a reference to the IPC channel. If no IPC channel exists, this
property is `undefined`.

## process.chdir(directory)
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.17
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32 changes: 20 additions & 12 deletions lib/internal/child_process.js
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Expand Up @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ const handleConversion = {
// the slave should keep track of the socket
message.key = socket.server._connectionKey;

var firstTime = !this._channel.sockets.send[message.key];
var firstTime = !this.channel.sockets.send[message.key];
var socketList = getSocketList('send', this, message.key);

// the server should no longer expose a .connection property
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function setupChannel(target, channel) {
target._channel = channel;
target.channel = channel;

// _channel can be deprecated in version 8
Object.defineProperty(target, '_channel', {
get() { return target.channel; },
set(val) { target.channel = val; },
enumerable: true
});

target._handleQueue = null;
target._pendingHandle = null;

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target.disconnect();
channel.onread = nop;
channel.close();
target._channel = null;
target.channel = null;
maybeClose(target);
}
};
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});

// Process a pending disconnect (if any).
if (!target.connected && target._channel && !target._handleQueue)
if (!target.connected && target.channel && !target._handleQueue)
target._disconnect();

return;
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};

target._send = function(message, handle, options, callback) {
assert(this.connected || this._channel);
assert(this.connected || this.channel);

if (message === undefined)
throw new TypeError('"message" argument cannot be undefined');
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// connected will be set to false immediately when a disconnect() is
// requested, even though the channel might still be alive internally to
// process queued messages. The three states are distinguished as follows:
// - disconnect() never requested: _channel is not null and connected
// - disconnect() never requested: channel is not null and connected
// is true
// - disconnect() requested, messages in the queue: _channel is not null
// - disconnect() requested, messages in the queue: channel is not null
// and connected is false
// - disconnect() requested, channel actually disconnected: _channel is
// - disconnect() requested, channel actually disconnected: channel is
// null and connected is false
target.connected = true;

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};

target._disconnect = function() {
assert(this._channel);
assert(this.channel);

// This marks the fact that the channel is actually disconnected.
this._channel = null;
this.channel = null;

if (this._pendingHandle) {
this._pendingHandle.close();
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const INTERNAL_PREFIX = 'NODE_';
function handleMessage(target, message, handle) {
if (!target._channel)
if (!target.channel)
return;

var eventName = 'message';
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function getSocketList(type, slave, key) {
var sockets = slave._channel.sockets[type];
var sockets = slave.channel.sockets[type];
var socketList = sockets[key];
if (!socketList) {
var Construct = type === 'send' ? SocketListSend : SocketListReceive;
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions lib/internal/process/stdio.js
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// sitting on fd=0, in such case the pipe for this fd is already
// present and creating a new one will lead to the assertion failure
// in libuv.
if (process._channel && process._channel.fd === fd) {
if (process.channel && process.channel.fd === fd) {
stdin = new net.Socket({
handle: process._channel,
handle: process.channel,
readable: true,
writable: false
});
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/parallel/test-child-process-fork-regr-gh-2847.js
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}

worker.process.once('close', common.mustCall(function() {
// Otherwise the crash on `_channel.fd` access may happen
assert.strictEqual(worker.process._channel, null);
// Otherwise the crash on `channel.fd` access may happen
assert.strictEqual(worker.process.channel, null);
server.close();
}));

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions test/parallel/test-child-process-fork.js
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var args = ['foo', 'bar'];

var n = fork(common.fixturesDir + '/child-process-spawn-node.js', args);

assert.strictEqual(n.channel, n._channel);
assert.deepStrictEqual(args, ['foo', 'bar']);

n.on('message', function(m) {
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/parallel/test-child-process-recv-handle.js
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}

function worker() {
process._channel.readStop(); // Make messages batch up.
process.channel.readStop(); // Make messages batch up.
process.stdout.ref();
process.stdout.write('ok\r\n');
process.stdin.once('data', common.mustCall((data) => {
assert.strictEqual(data.toString(), 'ok\r\n');
process._channel.readStart();
process.channel.readStart();
}));
let n = 0;
process.on('message', common.mustCall((msg, handle) => {
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/parallel/test-child-process-silent.js
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const child = childProcess.fork(process.argv[1], ['pipe'], {silent: true});

// Allow child process to self terminate
child._channel.close();
child._channel = null;
child.channel.close();
child.channel = null;

child.on('exit', function() {
process.exit(0);
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