sindresorhus/fkill

Kill tree (all sub-processes)

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#21 opened on Sep 17, 2017

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Description

Typical use case is starting a process with multiple sub-processes and then wanting to killing them all:

const child = require('child_process').exec("node -e 'while (true);'");
child.kill(); // will not work

It's been implemented for Windows in https://github.com/sindresorhus/fkill/pull/20, would be nice to have this functionality cross-platform.

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Research cross platform process tree killing: On Unix, use negative PID to kill process groups. On Windows, use Job Objects or taskkill with /T flag. Look at existing implementations like fkill's Windows PR #20 and libraries like 'tree kill'. Implement or wrap these approaches.
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javascriptnodejs
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clitooling
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JavaScriptNode.jsOperating Systems
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