nyc@15 crashes when spawning a different Node.js version

Link to bug demonstration repository

https://github.com/ehmicky/nyc-bug-repro

Expected Behavior

nyc should not crash when spawning a different Node.js version than the current one. This happens for example when using nvm or similar tools.

Observed Behavior

nyc crashes.

Troubleshooting steps

index.js:

const { spawn } = require("child_process");
const { homedir } = require("os");

const nodePath = `${homedir()}/.nvm/versions/node/v11.15.0/bin/node`;
spawn(nodePath, ["--help"], { stdio: "inherit" });

$ nvm install 11.15.0
$ nvm install 12.0.0
$ nvm use 12.0.0
$ npm install
$ nyc node index.js
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:670
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '"/home/user/nyc-bug-repro/node_modules/node-preload/preload-path/node-preload.js"'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:668:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:591:27)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:723:19)
    at Module._preloadModules (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:945:12)
    at loadPreloadModules (internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js:363:5)
    at prepareMainThreadExecution (internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js:61:3)
    at internal/main/print_help.js:180:1
----------|---------|----------|---------|---------|-------------------
File      | % Stmts | % Branch | % Funcs | % Lines | Uncovered Line #s
----------|---------|----------|---------|---------|-------------------
All files |     100 |      100 |     100 |     100 |
 index.js |     100 |      100 |     100 |     100 |
----------|---------|----------|---------|---------|-------------------

Notes

Please note the following bug only happens when:

• the current Node.js version is >= 12
• the spawned Node.js version is < 12

Also this only happens with nyc@15. I cannot use --use-spawn-wrap=true because spawn-wrap has its own sets of bugs that node-preload fixes.

The index.js file is spawning a node binary directly via its absolute path. This is only to make it easy to reproduce. In real life, this would be done when the PATH environment variable points to a different Node.js version, which happens when using nvm run and other tools.

Environment Information

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.3 Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)
    CPU: (16) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
    Memory: 51.92 GB / 62.76 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.0.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.0.0/bin/node
    npm: 6.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.0.0/bin/npm
  npmPackages:
    nyc: ^15.0.0 => 15.0.0 

[coreyfarrell]

@XhmikosR would you mind opening a new issue including a link to a repo and any special instructions for how to reproduce the issue?

[ehmicky]

Thanks a lot Corey! Thanks also for the v15 update, dropping spawn-wrap fixed many problems for me.