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Stdin EPIPE bug in node
// Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors.
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var common = require('../common');
var assert = require('assert');
var path = require('path');
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
// This test shows a bug that causes EPIPE's on all child processes after the
// process.stdin has been closed (either by the destroy call below, or a normal
// end of the the stream when reading it).
process.stdin.destroy();
var echoScript = path.join(common.fixturesDir, 'echo.js');;
var child = spawn(process.execPath, [echoScript]);
child.stdin.on('error', function(err) {
throw new Error('Could not write to child: ' + err.message);
});
child.stdin.write('hello world');
child.stdin.end();
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