VM thread shutdown.

runtime/tests/vm/dart/spawn_infinite_loop_test.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2015, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import 'dart:isolate';
+
+// This test ensures that the VM can kill the spawned isolate during VM
+// shutdown even when the isolate is in an infinite loop and will not finish
+// on its own.
+
+void loop(msg) {
+  while (true) {}

[Ivan Posva, 2015/09/14 21:52:13]

How do you ensure that the spawned isolate has actually reached the point of
looping before the whole test is brought down?

[zra, 2015/09/14 22:59:00]

There's no check for that here. This is mostly a sanity check. The other test
I've added exercises the case where an isolate is looping reliably.

+  throw "Unreachable";
+}
+
+void main() {
+  Isolate.spawn(loop, []);
+}