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fs.writeFileSync(-0, '') and fs.appendFileSync(-0, '') currently abort in the utf8 fast path. I also found the same issue with fs.readFileSync(-0, 'utf8').

The JS side treats -0 as an int32 file descriptor, but V8 does not report -0 as an Int32 in the binding. The binding then takes it for a path and hits the null check.

This normalizes -0 to 0 before entering the binding, matching the existing fs behavior for negative-zero file descriptors.

Tests were added to test/parallel/test-fs-negative-zero.js.

Fixes: #65886

`isInt32()` accepts -0 because `-0 === (-0 | 0)`, but V8 does not
represent -0 as an Int32 value, so `Value::IsInt32()` rejects it. The
utf8 fast paths of `readFileSync()` and `writeFileSync()` hand the value
straight to the binding, which then took it for a path and aborted on
the null check.

Coerce -0 to 0 before the call, matching `getValidatedFd()` and the rest
of fs, where -0 is a valid way to name file descriptor 0.

Signed-off-by: Christian Aurich <christian.aurichzm@gmail.com>
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node:fs: calling writeFileSync/appendFileSync with negative 0 causes an assertion failure

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