How to kill childprocess in nodejs?

Question

Created a childprocess using shelljs

!/usr/bin/env node

require(\'/usr/local/lib/node_modules/shelljs/global\');
   fs = require(\"fs\");  
   var child=exe         


        

Answer 1

If you can use node's built in child_process.spawn, you're able to send a SIGINT signal to the child process:

var proc = require('child_process').spawn('mongod');
proc.kill('SIGINT');

An upside to this is that the main process should hang around until all of the child processes have terminated.