Tracking Issue: Potential incompatibilities with node.config

[pmarchini]

Following #59138 and the introduction of GetOptionsAsFlags, we might want to verify whether similar changes are needed throughout the codebase, especially where execArgv is used to filter or propagate options to child processes, etc.

This could be necessary now that Node can receive options via --experimental-default-config-file.

I had a quick look and found these entries, though there are probably more:

Child Process Module

• lib/child_process.js#L148 - Default execArgv assignment for fork operations
• lib/child_process.js#L151 - Eval flag filtering to prevent fork bombing
• lib/child_process.js#L557 - Permission model flag copying to child processes

Cluster Module

• lib/internal/cluster/primary.js#L66 - Cluster worker setup with execArgv inheritance

Watch Mode

• lib/internal/main/watch_mode.js#L44-L50 - Watch flag filtering for process restarts

Note: At the moment, --watch doesn't seem to work with both the config file and NODE_OPTIONS.
We might want to remove kAllowedInEnvvar.

Parse Args Utility

- lib/internal/util/parse_args/parse_args.js#L62-L68 - Main argument detection for eval/print flags

Inspector Utility

• lib/internal/util/inspector.js#L23 - Inspector/debugger flag detection with caching

REPL Module

• lib/internal/repl/utils.js#L291-L297 - Strict mode detection with flag normalization

Benchmark Utilities

• benchmark/common.js#L230 - Benchmark execution arguments combination

Note: Some of the entries I listed probably don’t need any changes, but I’m reporting them to get a second opinion.

[pmarchini]

cc @nodejs/config

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