test-child-process-execfilesync-maxBuffer.js

'use strict';
require('../common');

// This test checks that the maxBuffer option for child_process.spawnFileSync()
// works as expected.

const assert = require('assert');
const { execFileSync } = require('child_process');
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.
{
  assert.throws(() => {
    execFileSync(process.execPath, args, { maxBuffer: 1 });
  }, (e) => {
    assert.ok(e, 'maxBuffer should error');
    assert.strictEqual(e.errno, 'ENOBUFS');
    // We can have buffers larger than maxBuffer because underneath we alloc 64k
    // that matches our read sizes.
    assert.deepStrictEqual(e.stdout, msgOutBuf);
    return true;
  });
}

// Verify that a maxBuffer size of Infinity works.
{
  const ret = execFileSync(process.execPath, args, { maxBuffer: Infinity });

  assert.deepStrictEqual(ret, msgOutBuf);
}

// Default maxBuffer size is 1024 * 1024.
{
  assert.throws(() => {
    execFileSync(
      process.execPath,
      ['-e', "console.log('a'.repeat(1024 * 1024))"]
    );
  }, (e) => {
    assert.ok(e, 'maxBuffer should error');
    assert.strictEqual(e.errno, 'ENOBUFS');
    return true;
  });
}