exec-file-sync — Greenflagged

Node.js 0.12 childProcess.execFileSync() ponyfill

Supply chain provenance

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Maintainers

sindresorhus

Keywords

built-incoreponyfillpolyfillshimchildprocessexecfilesyncexecfileexecfilesync

Accepted risks

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Source	Rule	Reason	Accepted by	When
semgrep	semgrep:child-process-import	AI (semgrep): This package is a ponyfill for childProcess.execFileSync — importing child_process is its core purpose and expected for every version.	ai	2026/04/24
provenance	no-provenance	AI (provenance): Legacy sindresorhus package published before Sigstore provenance was available; no provenance is expected and stable across versions.	ai	2026/04/24

Versions (showing 5 of 5)

Version	Deps	Published
3.0.0	3 / 1	2018-11-08
2.0.2	3 / 1	2016-09-30
2.0.1	3 / 1	2015-11-14
2.0.0	3 / 1	2015-07-15
1.0.0	1 / 1	2015-05-21

v3.0.0

1 finding

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v2.0.2

1 finding

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v2.0.1

1 finding

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v2.0.0

1 finding

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