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-// Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors.
-//
-// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
-// copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
-// "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
-// without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-// distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit
-// persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the
-// following conditions:
-//
-// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
-// in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-//
-// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
-// OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-// MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN
-// NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
-// DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
-// OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE
-// USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-
-var assert = require('assert');
-var common = require('../common');
-
-if (process.argv[2] === 'child') {
-  process.exit(0);
-} else if (process.argv[2] === 'testcase') {
-
-  // testcase
-  var fork = require('child_process').fork;
-  var child = fork(process.argv[1], ['child'], {thread: true});
-
-  process.on('exit', function () {
-    process.stdout.write('exit\n');
-  });
-} else {
-  // we need this to check that process.on('exit') fires
-
-  var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
-  var child = spawn(process.execPath, [process.argv[1], 'testcase']);
-
-  // pipe stderr and stdin
-  child.stderr.pipe(process.stderr);
-  process.stdin.pipe(child.stdin);
-
-  var missing = true;
-  child.stdout.on('data', function(chunk) {
-    if (missing) {
-        missing = chunk.toString() !== 'exit\n';
-    }
-    process.stdout.write(chunk);
-  });
-
-  child.on('exit', function(code) {
-    process.exit(code);
-  });
-
-  process.on('exit', function() {
-    assert.equal(missing, false);
-  });
-}
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