PNpM CLI

Patch Changes

• Globally-installed bins no longer fail with ERR_PNPM_NO_IMPORTER_MANIFEST_FOUND when pnpm was installed via the standalone @pnpm/exe binary (e.g. curl -fsSL https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -) on a system without a separate Node.js installation. Previously, when which('node') failed during pnpm add --global, pnpm fell back to process.execPath, which in @pnpm/exe is the pnpm binary itself — and that path was baked into the generated bin shim, causing the shim to invoke pnpm instead of Node #11291, #4645.

• Fix an infinite fork-bomb that could happen when pnpm was installed with one version (e.g. npm install -g pnpm@A) and run inside a project whose package.json selected a different pnpm version via the packageManager field (e.g. pnpm@B), while a pnpm-workspace.yaml also existed at the project root.

  The child's environment is now forced to manage-package-manager-versions=false (v10) and pm-on-fail=ignore (v11+), which disables the package-manager-version handling in whichever pnpm runs as the child.

  Fixes #11337.

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