cdk: await unfriendly, "Subprocess exited with error 13"

[Qlub53]

Describe the bug

Having a cdk program do await, even before new cdk.App();, always seems to end up with:

Subprocess exited with error 13

Expected Behavior

cdk executes await lines as normal.

Current Behavior

Subprocess exited with error 13

Reproduction Steps

error13.zip, where line 12-19 of bin/error13.ts are salient.

// `cdk` won't wait for user input
readline.createInterface({ input, output }).question(`Question 1: `, answer => console.log(answer));

// `cdk` exits with error 13
await new Promise(resolve => readline.createInterface({ input, output }).question(`Question 2: `, answer => console.log(answer)));

// `cdk` exits with error 13
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve, 3000));

Steps:

1. Unzip error13.zip
2. cd to upzipped location
3. npm install
4. cdk synth --all or cdk deploy --all

Possible Solution

No response

Additional Information/Context

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CDK CLI Version

2.69.0

Framework Version

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Node.js Version

16.8.0

OS

macOS 12.5

Language

Typescript

Language Version

4.6.3

Other information

No response

[pahud]

This probably requires async func call but according to the previous discussion here #8273 (comment), it's an anti-pattern and is not supported by CDK.

If you need receive interactive user input like readline, maybe you should consider using read in bash to read in user input as a variable and pass it to CDK app through context variables with -c.

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