Altered webworker-child to permit the global worker object to be passed by reference.

examples/trivial/master.js

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+var Worker = require("webworker").Worker;
+var worker = new Worker(__dirname + "/worker.js");
+worker.onmessage = function (message) {
+    console.log(message.data);
+    worker.terminate();
+};
+worker.postMessage("Hello, World!");
+

examples/trivial/worker.js

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+var worker = this;
+worker.onmessage = function (message) {
+    // echo
+    worker.postMessage(message.data);
+}
+

lib/webworker-child.js

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ ws.addListener('open', function() {
     process.addListener('uncaughtException', exceptionHandler);
 
     // Execute the worker
-    scriptObj.runInNewContext(workerCtx);
+    scriptObj.runInThisContext();
 });
 
 // Construt the Script object to host the worker's code
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ default:
 }
 
 // Set up the context for the worker instance
-var workerCtx = {};
+var workerCtx = global;
 
 // Context elements required for node.js
 //