Prevent fork from adding --inspect-brk

Question

My application calls child_process.fork during execution. I would like to use --inspect-brk to debug the tests, but I do not care about the forked process. I actually specifically need the forked process to not inherit the --inspect-brk flag. How can I do that?

Answer 1

From the child process docs, for child_process.fork:

execArgv List of string arguments passed to the executable. Default: process.execArgv

So, the forked process inherits the main process arguments passed. With that in mind, you should override execArgv:

var cp = require('child_process');
var foo = cp.fork('./foo.js', { execArgv: [] });