child_process: add tracing channel for spawn#61836
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This PR adds a new
child_process.spawntracing channel wrapping thespawncall. Sincespawnis synchronous, this usesstart,end, anderrorevents (rather than the async variants).Events
tracing:child_process.spawn:start— published before the native_handle.spawn()call, with{ process, options }tracing:child_process.spawn:end— published on successful spawn, with{ process }tracing:child_process.spawn:error— published on spawn failure, with{ process, error }Since
exec,execFile, andforkall callspawninternally, this single tracing channel covers all child process creation paths (e.g.: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/lib/child_process.js#L174)