Tree Kill

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

Example

Kill all the children processes of the process with pid 1, including the process with pid 1 itself:

var kill = require('tree-kill');
kill(1, 'SIGKILL');

Supports callbacks with error handling:

var kill = require('tree-kill');
kill(1, 'SIGKILL', function(err) {
    // Do things
});

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 Windows, this uses 'taskkill /pid PID /T /F' to kill the process tree.

Install

With npm do:

npm install tree-kill

License

MIT