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 ### `ELECTRON_NO_ASAR`
 
-Disables ASAR support. Note that this variable can only be used when forking a process to disable any ASAR support in that process.
+Disables ASAR support. This variable is only supported in forked child processes
+and spawned child processes that set `ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE`.
 
 ## Development Variables