Error with child_process spawn after updating to node 20.11.0

[Eugene753]

Version

20.11.0

Platform

Mac OS Sonoma

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

No specific steps, related to custom project framework.

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Consistence error.

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

No response

What do you see instead?

Error: spawn Unknown system error -8
  at ChildProcess.spawn (node:internal/child_process:421:11)
  at spawn (node:child_process:761:9)
  at: file_path
 error: -8,
code: 'Unknown system error -8'
 syscall: 'spawn'

Additional information

After updating to node 20.11.0 running pnpm command which linked with ChildProcess.spawn stopped working, when downgrading back to 18.11.0 it works fine. Maybe anyone else have encounter this issue?

[benjamingr]

Any chance you can write a reproducible code example? ideally just Node.js without dependencies like pnpm.

[Eugene753]

It is a big project with many files involved, can't write like a simple example.
As an example: const nightwatch = spawn(${__dirname}/${sriptToRun}.sh, arguments, {stdio: 'inherit'})
This part particularly is not working. I thought maybe anyone else encountered something similar. Thank you.

[akili862002]

I experienced the same issue when I updated Node to version 18.20.3 or higher. Thanks to your advice, I downgraded to version 18.11.0 and now everything is working perfectly! 🥰

[freebreix]

I experienced the same issue when I updated Node to version 18.20.3 or higher. Thanks to your advice, I downgraded to version 18.11.0 and now everything is working perfectly! 🥰

Same, thanks for the hint!

[dingshaohua-com]

Even very simple code can generate errors

dsh@dshMBP node-demo % node ./index.js 
node:internal/child_process:421
    throw new ErrnoException(err, 'spawn');
    ^

Error: spawn Unknown system error -8
    at ChildProcess.spawn (node:internal/child_process:421:11)
    at spawn (node:child_process:761:9)
    at execFile (node:child_process:351:17)
    at file:///Users/dingshaohua/%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6/code/node-demo/index.js:5:3
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:414:7)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:519:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1105:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (node:internal/child_process:457:11)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:519:28)
    at Pipe.<anonymous> (node:net:339:12) {
  errno: -8,
  code: 'Unknown system error -8',
  syscall: 'spawn'
}

Node.js v20.16.0

index.js

import { exec, execFile } from "child_process";

const scriptPath = "./a.sh";
execFile(scriptPath, (error1, stdout1, stderr1) => {});

My solution is not to lower the node version：

const scriptPath = "./a.sh";
const scriptContent = (fs.readFileSync(scriptPath)).toString()
exec(scriptContent, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
    console.log(stdout);
});

perfect solutions

or you can do this，it is perfect solutions：

execFile(scriptPath, { shell: true })