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Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.239,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
When a spawned command exceeds the output buffer limit, the helper that runs it now returns an explicit overflow marker alongside the exit code instead of a generic failure, so the code that called it can tell truncated output apart from a crashed command.
Evidence
execFileNoThrow maxBuffer exceeded
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.