Node.js catch ENOMEM error thrown after spawn
My Node.js script crashes because of a thrown ENOMEM (Out of memory) errnoException when using spawn . The error: child_process.js:935 throw errnoException(process._errno, 'spawn'); ^ Error: spawn ENOMEM at errnoException (child_process.js:988:11) at ChildProcess.spawn (child_process.js:935:11) at Object.exports.spawn (child_process.js:723:9) at module.exports ([...]/node_modules/zbarimg/index.js:19:23) I'm already using listeners for the error and exit event, but non of them getting fired in case of this error. My code: zbarimg = process.spawn('zbarimg', [photo, '-q']); zbarimg.on('error',