Reliably ends all direct and indirect child processes of the current process
npm install end-child-processes
This library ends all child processes spawned by the current process, including
nested child processes. The current process itself remains unaffected.
``shell`
npm install --save end-child-processes
`js
import { endChildProcesses } from "end-child-processes"
// spawn a long-running subprocess
import * as childProcess from "child_process"
childProcess.exec("node -e 'while (true) {}'")
// end all running subprocesses spawned by this program
await endChildProcesses()
`
On Windows, this library does not attempt to end the WMIC.exe` process since it
terminates on its own.
Dependent on your use case, these other libraries that might also be a good fit
for you:
- ps-tree: displays information about all
running subprocesses
- tree-kill: ends all processes in
the process tree, including the current process
- @jub3i/tree-kill: ends all processes in
the process tree, including the current process