Better error message when exceeding maxBuffer size

[jharding]

Better error message when exceeding maxBuffer size

[kaynz]

Is there any workaround for this problem in 0.4.7?

[gwicksted]

Hi @kaynz , you probably don't want Infinity since this is a memory limit value for stderr/stdout coming from the child process and you probably don't want to soak up all the memory on your system if something goes awry. The default (front NodeJS) is a respectable 200KB - if this is not enough, you may be better off piping it elsewhere (a file). I'm going to be looking at these options in more detail soon -- do you have a specific use case I can verify against while testing?

[kaynz]

Hi,
thanks for your quick response. I'm using grunt-exec for cordova build process automation. Especially the ios build process (cordova build ios --device) runs into the maxBuffer of 200kb.

[gwicksted]

You could try adding -ll error (log level) to the end of your cordova build command. If that doesn't do it, try increasing the maxBuffer of grunt exec to something like 500*1024. Are you using bash? If so you might be able to append this to the end: >| tee build.log which should overwrite build.log each time with the stdout from cordova as well as suppressing it from the child process stdout stream (untested).

[gwicksted]

Large maxBuffer sizes have been tested, better error handling added.