'use strict'; require('../common'); // This test checks that the maxBuffer option for child_process.spawnSync() // works as expected. const assert = require('assert'); const spawnSync = require('child_process').spawnSync; const msgOut = 'this is stdout'; const msgOutBuf = Buffer.from(`${msgOut}\n`); const args = [ '-e', `console.log("${msgOut}");` ]; // Verify that an error is returned if maxBuffer is surpassed. { const ret = spawnSync(process.execPath, args, { maxBuffer: 1 }); assert.ok(ret.error, 'maxBuffer should error'); assert.strictEqual(ret.error.errno, 'ENOBUFS'); // We can have buffers larger than maxBuffer because underneath we alloc 64k // that matches our read sizes. assert.deepStrictEqual(ret.stdout, msgOutBuf); } // Verify that a maxBuffer size of Infinity works. { const ret = spawnSync(process.execPath, args, { maxBuffer: Infinity }); assert.ifError(ret.error); assert.deepStrictEqual(ret.stdout, msgOutBuf); }