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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"test-net-GH-5504.js is failing because environment variables are missing","articleBody":"In test https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/test/sequential/test-net-GH-5504.js\n\n``` javascript\n   var opt = {\n     env: {\n       NODE_DEBUG: 'net',\n       NODE_COMMON_PORT: process.env.NODE_COMMON_PORT,\n     }\n   };\n   ...\n   var s = spawn(node, [__filename, 'server'], opt);\n```\n\nThis code loses the original environment variables passing into the program, which causes failure for the spawn function. Specifically, the program could not start because the loader couldn't find the correct version of standard c++ library which is not in the default location. The loader is supposed to find the needed libraries thought LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable which is missing.\n\nI suggests to change the above code to this instead:\n\n``` javascript\n   var opt = {\n     env: process.env\n   };\n   opt.env.NODE_DEBUG = \"net\";\n   opt.env.NODE_COMMON_PORT = process.env.NODE_COMMON_PORT;\n\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/john-yan","@type":"Person","name":"john-yan"},"datePublished":"2015-10-05T17:32:44.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/3183/node/issues/3183"}