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Output streams do not emit "end" event if execution fails #517

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Consider this code (using node 18.13.0 and execa 6.1.0)

import { execa } from 'execa';

const proc = execa( "does not exist", [], { stdio: [ 'ignore', 'pipe', 'inherit' ], buffer: false } );

proc.stdout.on( 'end', () => console.log( 'stdout ended' ) );
proc.stdout.on( 'close', () => console.log( 'stdout closed' ) );

await proc.catch( e => e );

Only "stdout closed" is logged, "stdout ended" never happens.

This does not match the behavior of child_process:

import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';

const proc = spawn( "does not exist", [], { stdio: [ 'ignore', 'pipe', 'inherit' ] } );

proc.stdout.on( 'end', () => console.log( 'stdout ended' ) );
proc.stdout.on( 'close', () => console.log( 'stdout closed' ) );

proc.on( 'error', () => console.log( 'proc error' ) );

In this case both "stdout ended" and "stdout closed" fire as expected.

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