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authorAlex Gresnel <31708810+agresnel@users.noreply.github.com>2017-09-09 11:44:55 -0700
committerMyles Borins <mylesborins@google.com>2017-11-28 13:09:53 +0900
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child_process: set shell to false in fork()
This commit ensures that spawn()'s shell option is unconditionally set to false when fork() is called. Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15299 Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/13983 PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15352 Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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@@ -304,6 +304,9 @@ output on this fd is expected to be line delimited JSON objects.
*Note: Unlike the fork(2) POSIX system call, `child_process.fork()` does
not clone the current process.*
+*Note*: The `shell` option available in [`child_process.spawn()`][] is not
+supported by `child_process.fork()` and will be ignored if set.
+
### child_process.spawn(command[, args][, options])
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.90