child_process.flushStdio: resume _consuming streams #4071

davidvgalbraith · 2015-11-30T10:53:51Z

Hey! I'm new here. Tried to follow all the guidelines. Thanks for your attention!

When a client calls read() with a nonzero argument
on a Socket, that Socket sets this._consuming to true.
It never sets this._consuming back to false.
child_process.flushStdio currently doesn't flush
any streams where _consuming is truthy. But that means
that it never flushes any stream that has ever been read from.
This prevents a child process from ever closing if one of
its streams has been read from, causing issue #4049.

child_process.flushStdio should flush streams even if their
_consuming is set to true. Then it will close even after a read.

When a client calls read() with a nonzero argument on a Socket, that Socket sets this._consuming to true. It never sets this._consuming back to false. child_process.flushStdio currently doesn't flush any streams where _consuming is truthy. But that means that it never flushes any stream that has ever been read from. This prevents a child process from ever closing if one of its streams has been read from, causing issue nodejs#4049. child_process.flushStdio should flush streams even if their _consuming is set to true. Then it will close even after a read.

Fishrock123 · 2015-11-30T15:40:38Z

cc @nodejs/streams

Fishrock123 · 2015-11-30T15:41:44Z

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/881/

cjihrig · 2015-11-30T16:08:44Z

test/sequential/test-child-process-flush-stdio.js

+const cp = require('child_process');
+const common = require('../common');
+
+var p = cp.spawn('yes');


Is yes a valid Windows command?

I had my coworker on windows type yes into the prompt and it is not a command

Can also confirm it is not.

cjihrig · 2015-11-30T16:15:05Z

Is there a reason the test needs to be in sequential instead of parallel?

cjihrig · 2015-11-30T16:19:50Z

A couple of questions about the test, but mostly LGTM. I would like sign off from a streams person if possible.

davidvgalbraith · 2015-11-30T18:34:27Z

I moved the test into parallel, and I changed its use of yes to the cross-platform echo, double-checking that it still fails on master and passes on this branch.

cjihrig · 2015-11-30T19:08:05Z

test/parallel/test-child-process-flush-stdio.js

+const cp = require('child_process');
+const common = require('../common');
+
+var p = cp.spawn('echo');


Can you please make this const.

Make the spawned process object a const, and add assertions to the event handler that the arguments are as expected

davidvgalbraith · 2015-11-30T19:57:45Z

I made p a const, and I added validating assertions to the close event handler.

cjihrig · 2015-11-30T21:04:35Z

Started a CI run: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/883/

The linter doesn't like your indentation - https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-linter/434/console

Fishrock123 · 2015-11-30T21:10:44Z

@cjihrig note: currently the CI is private. See #4029 (comment)

davidvgalbraith · 2015-11-30T21:13:31Z

How embarrassing. I've indented the requisite two spaces. Forsooth I can't see anything at the CI link.

Fishrock123 · 2015-11-30T21:20:07Z

@davidvgalbraith could you run make jslint? That should do the trick. :)

davidvgalbraith · 2015-11-30T21:23:16Z

make jshint is looking green as of davidvgalbraith@127a82e.

cjihrig · 2015-11-30T21:30:33Z

@Fishrock123 good catch about the CI being private.

@davidvgalbraith the CI looks fine. There were a couple failures unrelated to this change. LGTM

When a client calls read() with a nonzero argument on a Socket, that Socket sets this._consuming to true. It never sets this._consuming back to false. ChildProcess.flushStdio() currently doesn't flush any streams where _consuming is truthy. But, that means that it never flushes any stream that has ever been read from. This prevents a child process from ever closing if one of its streams has been read from, causing issue #4049. This commit allows consuming streams to be flushed, and the child process to emit a close event. Fixes: #4049 PR-URL: #4071 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>

cjihrig · 2015-12-01T15:03:15Z

Thanks! Landed in 34b535f

jasnell · 2015-12-02T07:12:26Z

@cjihrig ... would you consider this a bug fix (and thus suitable for LTS) or an add?

cjihrig · 2015-12-02T15:55:49Z

I would consider this a bug fix.

silverwind · 2015-12-03T18:42:00Z

Looks like this new test here is failing on CentOS:

https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-linux/1387/nodes=centos5-32/tapResults/
https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-linux/1387/nodes=centos5-64/tapResults/

    test-child-process-flush-stdio.js   
    # Mismatched &lt;anonymous&gt; function calls. Expected 1, actual 0.
    # at Object.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/home/iojs/build/workspace/node-test-commit-linux/nodes/centos5-64/test/parallel/test-child-process-flush-stdio.js:8:22)
    # at Module._compile (module.js:399:26)
    # at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:406:10)
    # at Module.load (module.js:345:32)
    # at Function.Module._load (module.js:302:12)
    # at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:431:10)
    # at startup (node.js:138:18)
    # at node.js:976:3

cjihrig · 2015-12-03T18:43:41Z

Yes. See #4125

When a client calls read() with a nonzero argument on a Socket, that Socket sets this._consuming to true. It never sets this._consuming back to false. ChildProcess.flushStdio() currently doesn't flush any streams where _consuming is truthy. But, that means that it never flushes any stream that has ever been read from. This prevents a child process from ever closing if one of its streams has been read from, causing issue #4049. This commit allows consuming streams to be flushed, and the child process to emit a close event. Fixes: #4049 PR-URL: #4071 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>

MylesBorins · 2015-12-29T23:21:52Z

Not going to land this until we are ready to land #4215 into LTS... I think it needs a bit more time

When a client calls read() with a nonzero argument on a Socket, that Socket sets this._consuming to true. It never sets this._consuming back to false. ChildProcess.flushStdio() currently doesn't flush any streams where _consuming is truthy. But, that means that it never flushes any stream that has ever been read from. This prevents a child process from ever closing if one of its streams has been read from, causing issue #4049. This commit allows consuming streams to be flushed, and the child process to emit a close event. Fixes: #4049 PR-URL: #4071 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>

When a client calls read() with a nonzero argument on a Socket, that Socket sets this._consuming to true. It never sets this._consuming back to false. ChildProcess.flushStdio() currently doesn't flush any streams where _consuming is truthy. But, that means that it never flushes any stream that has ever been read from. This prevents a child process from ever closing if one of its streams has been read from, causing issue nodejs#4049. This commit allows consuming streams to be flushed, and the child process to emit a close event. Fixes: nodejs#4049 PR-URL: nodejs#4071 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>

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Child process/streams memory leak #4049

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child_process: closes before flushing all data #4074

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child-process-flush-stdio-test: rename and use echo

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