diff --git a/lib/parse.js b/lib/parse.js
index 4b85915c..213c8132 100644
--- a/lib/parse.js
+++ b/lib/parse.js
@@ -60,7 +60,14 @@ const DONE = Symbol('onDone')
 const SAW_VALID_ENTRY = Symbol('sawValidEntry')
 const SAW_NULL_BLOCK = Symbol('sawNullBlock')
 const SAW_EOF = Symbol('sawEOF')
-const CLOSESTREAM = Symbol('closeStream')
+const CLOSESTREAMTICK = Symbol('closeStreamTick')
+const CLOSESTREAMMICRO = Symbol('closeStreamMicro')
+const CLOSESTREAMPROMISE = Symbol('closeStreamPromise')
+const CLOSESTREAM = process.env.TAR_CLOSE === 'tick'
+  ? CLOSESTREAMTICK
+  : process.env.TAR_CLOSE === 'micro' ? CLOSESTREAMMICRO
+  : process.env.TAR_CLOSE === 'promise' ? CLOSESTREAMPROMISE
+  : null
 
 const noop = _ => true
 
@@ -222,7 +229,13 @@ module.exports = warner(class Parser extends EE {
   }
 
   [CLOSESTREAM] () {
-    nextTick(() => this.emit('close'))
+    if (CLOSESTREAM === CLOSESTREAMTICK) {
+      nextTick(() => this.emit('close'))
+    } else if (CLOSESTREAM === CLOSESTREAMMICRO) {
+      queueMicrotask(() => this.emit('close'))
+    } else if (CLOSESTREAM === CLOSESTREAMPROMISE) {
+      Promise.resolve().then(() => this.emit('close'))
+    }
   }
 
   [PROCESSENTRY] (entry) {
diff --git a/test/extract.js b/test/extract.js
index 5bbffeec..fbeec1e4 100644
--- a/test/extract.js
+++ b/test/extract.js
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ const { promisify } = require('util')
 const rimraf = promisify(require('rimraf'))
 const mutateFS = require('mutate-fs')
 const pipeline = promisify(require('stream').pipeline)
-const https = require('https')
 
 t.teardown(_ => rimraf(extractdir))
 
@@ -57,6 +56,7 @@ t.test('basic extracting', t => {
 })
 
 t.test('ensure an open stream is not prematuraly closed', t => {
+  t.plan(1)
   const dir = path.resolve(extractdir, 'basic-with-stream')
 
   t.beforeEach(async () => {
@@ -65,18 +65,19 @@ t.test('ensure an open stream is not prematuraly closed', t => {
   })
 
   const check = async t => {
-    fs.lstatSync(dir + '/node-tar-main/LICENSE')
+    t.ok(fs.lstatSync(dir + '/long-path'))
     await rimraf(dir)
     t.end()
   }
 
   t.test('async promisey', t => {
-    https.get('https://codeload.github.com/npm/node-tar/tar.gz/main', (stream) => {
-      return pipeline(
-        stream,
-        x({ cwd: dir }, ['node-tar-main/LICENSE'])
-      ).then(_ => check(t))
+    const stream = fs.createReadStream(path.resolve(tars, 'long-paths.tar'), {
+      highWaterMark: 1,
     })
+    pipeline(
+      stream,
+      x({ cwd: dir })
+    ).then(_ => check(t))
   })
 
   t.end()