test: fix flaky test-child-process-exec-timeout

At least starting with Darwin Kernel Version 16.4.0, sending a SIGTERM
to a process that is still starting up kills it with SIGKILL instead of
SIGTERM.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12159
Refs: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/1226
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <hello@about-hiroppy.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-child-process-exec-timeout.js b/test/parallel/test-child-process-exec-timeout.js
index b28fdf6581..63534d8cbc 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-child-process-exec-timeout.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-child-process-exec-timeout.js
@@ -18,7 +18,13 @@ const cmd = `${process.execPath} ${__filename} child`;
 cp.exec(cmd, { timeout: 1 }, common.mustCall((err, stdout, stderr) => {
   assert.strictEqual(err.killed, true);
   assert.strictEqual(err.code, null);
-  assert.strictEqual(err.signal, 'SIGTERM');
+  // At least starting with Darwin Kernel Version 16.4.0, sending a SIGTERM to a
+  // process that is still starting up kills it with SIGKILL instead of SIGTERM.
+  // See: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/1226
+  if (common.isOSX)
+    assert.ok(err.signal === 'SIGTERM' || err.signal === 'SIGKILL');
+  else
+    assert.strictEqual(err.signal, 'SIGTERM');
   assert.strictEqual(err.cmd, cmd);
   assert.strictEqual(stdout.trim(), '');
   assert.strictEqual(stderr.trim(), '');