From 5d7265f601f733b8a08b65f05379e39904a64593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:23:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] test: prevent flakey test on pi2

Looping rapidly and making new connections causes problems on pi2.
Instead create a new connection when an old connection has already been
made. Running a stress test of 600 times and they all passed.

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5302
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5537
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <orangemocha@nodejs.org>
---
 test/parallel/parallel.status                  |  1 -
 test/parallel/test-process-getactivehandles.js | 17 ++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/parallel/parallel.status b/test/parallel/parallel.status
index 213e962683a..fb3d39e9f40 100644
--- a/test/parallel/parallel.status
+++ b/test/parallel/parallel.status
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ prefix parallel
 test-tick-processor     : PASS,FLAKY
 
 [$system==linux]
-test-process-getactivehandles : PASS,FLAKY
 test-tick-processor           : PASS,FLAKY
 
 [$system==macos]
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-process-getactivehandles.js b/test/parallel/test-process-getactivehandles.js
index 96464cf3b22..e257439f7ba 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-process-getactivehandles.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-process-getactivehandles.js
@@ -10,13 +10,16 @@ var clients_counter = 0;
 
 const server = net.createServer(function listener(c) {
   connections.push(c);
-}).listen(common.PORT, function makeConnections() {
-  for (var i = 0; i < NUM; i++) {
-    net.connect(common.PORT, function connected() {
-      clientConnected(this);
-    });
-  }
-});
+}).listen(common.PORT, makeConnection);
+
+
+function makeConnection() {
+  if (clients_counter >= NUM) return;
+  net.connect(common.PORT, function connected() {
+    clientConnected(this);
+    makeConnection();
+  });
+}
 
 
 function clientConnected(client) {