From 2da7ff5e969538a19c27e6929d435094347f90a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 19:06:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] test: fix flaky test-worker-ref-onexit

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/26167

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26170
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <Bethany.Griggs@uk.ibm.com>
---
 test/parallel/test-worker-ref-onexit.js | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-worker-ref-onexit.js b/test/parallel/test-worker-ref-onexit.js
index 0250c592ce9..24c940f8c8d 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-worker-ref-onexit.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-worker-ref-onexit.js
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ const { Worker } = require('worker_threads');
 // Check that worker.unref() makes the 'exit' event not be emitted, if it is
 // the only thing we would otherwise be waiting for.
 
-const w = new Worker('', { eval: true });
+// Use `setInterval()` to make sure the worker is alive until the end of the
+// event loop turn.
+const w = new Worker('setInterval(() => {}, 100);', { eval: true });
 w.unref();
 w.on('exit', common.mustNotCall());