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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"No error handling around execSync + JSON.parse in whitespace.js (ESLint 9 path)","articleBody":"## Summary\nWhen `CLIEngine` is not available (e.g. ESLint 9), `whitespace.js` loads the config by running `whitespace-async.js` with `execSync` and then doing `JSON.parse(String(...))` on the result. There is no try/catch around this.\n\n## Impact\n- If the child script exits non-zero, prints errors, or prints non-JSON (e.g. ESLint timing or debug output), `execSync` may throw or return non-JSON.\n- `JSON.parse` will then throw and the config load fails with a generic parsing error, making it hard to see that the real failure was in the child script.\n\n## Affected files\n- `packages/eslint-config-airbnb-base/whitespace.js`  (line 55)\n- `packages/eslint-config-airbnb/whitespace.js`   (line 55)\n\n## Suggested fix\nWrap the `execSync` call and `JSON.parse` in try/catch and rethrow with a clear message (and optionally `cause: err`) so failures are easier to diagnose.\n\n## screenshot\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1574\" height=\"363\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/55300261-9c27-4096-b8e1-3aafd1a7728b\" /\u003e\n\nI'd love to work on this.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dataCenter430","@type":"Person","name":"dataCenter430"},"datePublished":"2026-03-05T19:18:49.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/3238/javascript/issues/3238"}