Worker

This property is true if the worker exited due to .disconnect(). If the worker exited any other way, it is false. If the worker has not exited, it is undefined.

Each new worker is given its own unique id, this id is stored in the id.

All workers are created using child_process.fork(), the returned object from this function is stored as .process. In a worker, the global process is stored.

events.EventEmitter

Alias for emitter.on(eventName, listener).

In a worker, this function will close all servers, wait for the 'close' event on those servers, and then disconnect the IPC channel.

Synchronously calls each of the listeners registered for the event named eventName, in the order they were registered, passing the supplied arguments to each.

Returns an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered listeners. The values in the array are strings or Symbols.

Returns the current max listener value for the EventEmitter which is either set by emitter.setMaxListeners(n) or defaults to {@link defaultMaxListeners}.

This function returns true if the worker is connected to its primary via its IPC channel, false otherwise. A worker is connected to its primary after it has been created. It is disconnected after the 'disconnect' event is emitted.

This function returns true if the worker's process has terminated (either because of exiting or being signaled). Otherwise, it returns false.

This function will kill the worker. In the primary worker, it does this by disconnecting the worker.process, and once disconnected, killing with signal. In the worker, it does it by killing the process with signal.

Returns the number of listeners listening for the event named eventName. If listener is provided, it will return how many times the listener is found in the list of the listeners of the event.

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

Alias for emitter.removeListener().

Adds the listener function to the end of the listeners array for the event named eventName. No checks are made to see if the listener has already been added. Multiple calls passing the same combination of eventName and listener will result in the listener being added, and called, multiple times.

Adds a one-time listener function for the event named eventName. The next time eventName is triggered, this listener is removed and then invoked.

Adds the listener function to the beginning of the listeners array for the event named eventName. No checks are made to see if the listener has already been added. Multiple calls passing the same combination of eventName and listener will result in the listener being added, and called, multiple times.

Adds a one-timelistener function for the event named eventName to the beginning of the listeners array. The next time eventName is triggered, this listener is removed, and then invoked.

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName, including any wrappers (such as those created by .once()).

Removes all listeners, or those of the specified eventName.

Removes the specified listener from the listener array for the event named eventName.

Send a message to a worker or primary, optionally with a handle.

By default EventEmitters will print a warning if more than 10 listeners are added for a particular event. This is a useful default that helps finding memory leaks. The emitter.setMaxListeners() method allows the limit to be modified for this specific EventEmitter instance. The value can be set to Infinity (or 0) to indicate an unlimited number of listeners.