child_process: 'close' not emitted after .disconnect() in parent process

[laino]

• Version: v9.8.0
• Platform: Linux 64bit
• Subsystem: child_process

When calling child.disconnect() from a parent process (not in cluster mode), the child process object does not emit a close event after the exit event.

If however the child process itself calls process.disconnect() it works as expected.

Example:

// parent.js
const child_process = require('child_process');

const child = child_process.fork('./child.js', {
 stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe', 'ipc']
});

setTimeout(() => {
 child.disconnect();
}, 1000);

child.on('exit', () => {
 console.log('exit');
});

child.on('close', () => {
 console.log('close');
});

child.stderr.pipe(process.stderr);
child.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);

// child.js
process.on('disconnect', () => {
 console.log('cya');
});

Output:

cya
exit

Expected Output:

cya
exit
close