The fixture's sleep ran as a child of dash. Killing the wrapper shell left the child holding stdout/stderr, so execa's close waited for the sleep itself to exit (about 5025ms) and both deadline cases hit vitest's 5000ms budget on Linux. exec makes the killed process the one that owns the pipes, so a timed-out or cancelled invocation rejects immediately.
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