events: change EventTarget handler exception behavior

Change the behavior of EventTarget, instead of emitting
'error' on handler exception, emit 'uncaughtException'.

Fixes: #36770

Author: Nitzan Uziely

doc/api/events.md

@@ -1137,6 +1137,9 @@ setMaxListeners(5, target, emitter);
 <!-- YAML
 added: v14.5.0
 changes:
+  - version: REPLACEME
+    pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37237
+    description: changed EventTarget error handling.
   - version: v15.4.0
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/35949
     description: No longer experimental.
@@ -1247,9 +1250,9 @@ target.addEventListener('foo', handler4, { once: true });
 ### `EventTarget` error handling
 
 When a registered event listener throws (or returns a Promise that rejects),
-by default the error is forwarded to the `process.on('error')` event
-on `process.nextTick()`. Throwing within an event listener will *not* stop
-the other registered handlers from being invoked.
+by default the error is forwarded to the `process.on('uncaughtException')`
+event on `process.nextTick()`. Throwing within an event listener will *not*
+stop the other registered handlers from being invoked.
 
 The `EventTarget` does not implement any special default handling for
 `'error'` type events.

lib/internal/event_target.js

@@ -420,9 +420,9 @@ class EventTarget {
         }
         const result = FunctionPrototypeCall(handler.callback, this, arg);
         if (result !== undefined && result !== null)
-          addCatch(this, result, createEvent());
+          addCatch(result);
       } catch (err) {
-        emitUnhandledRejectionOrErr(this, err, createEvent());
+        emitUncaughtException(err);
       }
 
       handler = next;
@@ -582,19 +582,19 @@ function isEventTarget(obj) {
   return obj?.constructor?.[kIsEventTarget];
 }
 
-function addCatch(that, promise, event) {
+function addCatch(promise) {
   const then = promise.then;
   if (typeof then === 'function') {
     FunctionPrototypeCall(then, promise, undefined, function(err) {
       // The callback is called with nextTick to avoid a follow-up
       // rejection from this promise.
-      process.nextTick(emitUnhandledRejectionOrErr, that, err, event);
+      emitUncaughtException(err);
     });
   }
 }
 
-function emitUnhandledRejectionOrErr(that, err, event) {
-  process.emit('error', err, event);
+function emitUncaughtException(err) {
+  process.nextTick(() => { throw err; });
 }
 
 function makeEventHandler(handler) {

test/parallel/test-eventtarget.js

@@ -176,14 +176,16 @@ let asyncTest = Promise.resolve();
 }
 
 {
-  const uncaughtException = common.mustCall((err, event) => {
+  const uncaughtException = common.mustCall((err, origin) => {
     strictEqual(err.message, 'boom');
-    strictEqual(event.type, 'foo');
+    strictEqual(origin, 'uncaughtException');
   }, 4);
 
-  // Whether or not the handler function is async or not, errors
-  // are routed to uncaughtException
-  process.on('error', uncaughtException);
+  // Make sure that we no longer call 'error' on error.
+  process.on('error', common.mustNotCall());
+  // Don't call rejection even for async handlers.
+  process.on('unhandledRejection', common.mustNotCall());
+  process.on('uncaughtException', uncaughtException);
 
   const eventTarget = new EventTarget();