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killing a node.js child process with infinite loop
while(true) {
console.log('blah');
}
// to execute this test run `node parent.js`
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
console.log('Spawning child process');
var child = spawn('node', ['child.js']);
child.on('exit', function(){
clearTimeout(to);
console.log('Child exited!');
});
child.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
console.log('stdout: ' + data);
});
child.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
console.log('stderr: ' + data);
});
var to = setTimeout(function(){
console.log('Sending sigkill');
child.kill();
}, 2000);
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knyga commented Sep 29, 2018

Check the harakiri repo. This module has similar idea to manage process health.

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