Transfered (PostMessaged) disk- blob's aren't readable

[jimmywarting]

I notice that blobs transfered over workers aren't readable at all.

• it only applies to blobs coming from fs.openAsBlob
• in-memory constructed blobs works fine.

mini repro:

import { Worker } from 'worker_threads'
const worker = new Worker('./worker.js')
worker.once('message', blob => {
 // worker.terminate() // Should be fine to do this as well
 blob.text()
})

// worker.js
import { parentPort } from 'node:worker_threads'
import { openAsBlob } from 'node:fs'

const blob = await openAsBlob(import.meta.url.slice(7)) // file:// doesn't work
parentPort.postMessage(blob)

I would assume that if you also closed the worker it would still work just fine to read the blob, even if it came from another thread...

originally posted by @jimmywarting in #45258 (comment)

maybe also worth trying out to write a test that also use MessageChannel?
...haven't tested if MessageChannel works or not.

[ronag]

@jasnell