child_process.fork is not working and idk the reason

Question

I'm trying to use child_process.fork() but it's not working. I tried using spawn and that works. Can anyone help me?

 child_process.fork('node', ["bot.js"],{cwd:fs.readFileSync('./path.txt')+"\\Workroom\\"});

Answer 1

readFileSync is returning a buffer when you expect it to return a string. You need to set the encoding to 'utf8'. And I recommend using path.join instead of simply concatenating (assuming the content of path.txt is a valid path). your code would look something like this...

child_process.fork('node', ["bot.js"],
    {cwd: path.join(fs.readFileSync('./path.txt', 'utf8'),'Workroom')}
);