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doc: clear up child_process command resolution
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Fixes: nodejs#20605
Refs: libuv/libuv#1837

PR-URL: nodejs#32091
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Bartosz Sosnowski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]>
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lundibundi authored and addaleax committed Mar 11, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ process will block waiting for the pipe buffer to accept more data. This is
identical to the behavior of pipes in the shell. Use the `{ stdio: 'ignore' }`
option if the output will not be consumed.

The command lookup will be performed using `options.env.PATH` environment
variable if passed in `options` object, otherwise `process.env.PATH` will be
used. To account for the fact that Windows environment variables are
case-insensitive Node.js will lexicographically sort all `env` keys and choose
the first one case-insensitively matching `PATH` to perform command lookup.
This may lead to issues on Windows when passing objects to `env` option that
have multiple variants of `PATH` variable.

The [`child_process.spawn()`][] method spawns the child process asynchronously,
without blocking the Node.js event loop. The [`child_process.spawnSync()`][]
function provides equivalent functionality in a synchronous manner that blocks
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