tree-kill

Tree Kill
=========

Kill all processes in the process tree, including the root process.

Examples
=======

Kill all the descendent processes of the process with pid 1, including the process with pid 1 itself:
``js
var kill = require('tree-kill');
kill(1);
`

Send a signal other than SIGTERM.:
`js
var kill = require('tree-kill');
kill(1, 'SIGKILL');
`

Run a callback when done killing the processes. Passes an error argument if there was an error.
`js
var kill = require('tree-kill');
kill(1, 'SIGKILL', function(err) {
// Do things
});
`

You can also install tree-kill globally and use it as a command:
`sh
tree-kill 1 # sends SIGTERM to process 1 and its descendents
tree-kill 1 SIGTERM # same
tree-kill 1 SIGKILL # sends KILL instead of TERMINATE
`

Methods
=======

require('tree-kill')(pid, [signal], [callback]);

Sends signal signal to all children processes of the process with pid pid, including pid. Signal defaults to SIGTERM.

For Linux, this uses ps -o pid --no-headers --ppid PID to find the parent pids of PID.

For Darwin/OSX, this uses pgrep -P PID to find the parent pids of PID.

For Windows, this uses 'taskkill /pid PID /T /F' to kill the process tree. Note that on Windows, sending the different kinds of POSIX signals is not possible.

Install
=======

With npm do:

`
npm install tree-kill
`

License
=======

MIT

Changelog
=========




[1.2.2] - 2019-12-11

$3

- security fix: sanitize pid parameter to fix arbitrary code execution vulnerability

[1.2.1] - 2018-11-05

$3

- added missing LICENSE file
- updated TypeScript definitions

[1.2.0] - 2017-09-19

$3

- TypeScript definitions

$3

- kill(pid, callback) works. Before you had to use kill(pid, signal, callback)

[1.1.0] - 2016-05-13

$3

- A tree-kill` CLI

[1.0.0] - 2015-09-17

$3

- optional callback
- Darwin support