test: Worker initialization failure test case

test/parallel/test-worker-init-failure.js

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+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const child_process = require('child_process');
+
+// Test that workers fail with meaningful error message
+// when their initialization fails.
+
+if (process.argv[2] === 'child') {
+  const { Worker } = require('worker_threads');
+  for (let i = 0; i < 256; ++i) {
+    const worker = new Worker(
+      'require(\'worker_threads\').parentPort.postMessage(2 + 2)',
+      { eval: true });
+    worker.on('message', (result) => {
+      assert.strictEqual(result, 4);
+    });
+    worker.on('error', (e) => {
+      assert(e.message.match(/Worker initialization failure: EMFILE/));
+      assert.strictEqual(e.code, 'ERR_WORKER_INIT_FAILED');
+    });
+  }
+
+} else {
+
+  if (common.isWindows) {
+    common.skip('ulimit does not work on Windows.');
+  }
+
+  // Limit the number of open files, to force workers to fail
+  let testCmd = 'ulimit -n 128 && ';
+
+  testCmd += `${process.argv[0]} ${process.argv[1]} child`;
+  const cp = child_process.exec(testCmd);
+
+  // Turn on the child streams for debugging purpose
+  cp.stderr.on('data', (d) => {
+    console.log(d.toString());
+  });
+  cp.stdout.on('data', (d) => {
+    console.log(d.toString());
+  });
+}