Intermittent failures in test-process-exec-argv

[mhdawson]

• Version: 6.0 (built from source)
• Platform: Seen on s390 but believe could occur on any
• Subsystem: process

We see this test fail intermittently (about 0.4% of the time on one of our machines) with:

680 - test-process-exec-argv.js
not ok 680 test-process-exec-argv.js
# undefined:1
#
#
#
# SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input
# at Object.parse (native)
# at ChildProcess. (/build/jenkins/new/workspace/ibmnode-v6-test-linux/ARCH/s390/DISTRO/rhel7/GCC/gcc48/OS/linux/SUITE/node/labels/bvt/node/test/parallel/test-process-exec-argv.js:19:33)
# at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
# at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
# at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)

We believe the cause is related to the issue being discussed here: #6456

Opening this issue as the outcome of #6456 may or may not resolve the failing test depending on what's decided as the right way forward so we need to track this failure to make sure the test is either fixed by what we do for 6456 or that the test is updated to remove the dependency on the process exit timing if what we do for 6456 does not resolve the issue

[santigimeno]

I could reproduce the issue in OS X. This PR: #6575 fixes the issue for me.

[santigimeno]

@mhdawson can you check if the fix in #6575 fixes the issue for you? Thanks!

[mhdawson]

will do

[mhdawson]

Running in a long loop on the machine we saw the failure as we speak. So far looks good but want to let it run through at least several thousand iterations before comfirming

[mhdawson]

Ok 6000+ runs without a failure with that patch so looks good.