child_process: deliver ENOENT on nextTick

After the uv upgrade, uv_spawn will now fail faster for certain
failures like ENOENT. However, our tests and other people may be
depending on that error being passed to the callback instead of a
throw.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/child_process.js b/lib/child_process.js
index 33928a945c..96193a8b25 100644
--- a/lib/child_process.js
+++ b/lib/child_process.js
@@ -952,7 +952,14 @@ ChildProcess.prototype.spawn = function(options) {
 
   var err = this._handle.spawn(options);
 
-  if (err) {
+  if (!constants)
+    constants = process.binding('constants');
+
+  if (-err == constants.ENOENT) {
+    process.nextTick(function() {
+      self._handle.onexit(err);
+    });
+  } else if (err) {
     // Close all opened fds on error
     stdio.forEach(function(stdio) {
       if (stdio.type === 'pipe') {