I spawn a synchronous process like this:
child = spawnSync('somecommand', { stdio: 'inherit', cwd: someDir, timeout: 30000});
Is there a reliable way to check if the child process failed due to the timeout option or some other error?
If anyone runs into the same problem, there is a simple way to retrieve the timeout error code at run-time:
if (child.error && child.error.code === "ETIMEDOUT") {
console.log("child timed out");
}
You should check for the log of node which is running down there somewhere. You must be running this with a cli so you can see the log there. Or you can look for where the log is saved. Everything, specially the errors are noted there.