Accessing process object from child_process.spawn

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When I spawn a process with var proc = child_process.spawn("/usr/sbin/long_running_binary"), I would like to have access to information about proc as its own process. I can run process.cpuUsage and process.cwd() and process.uptime() for the current node process, but how do I find this metadata for proc?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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I don't think Node.js has a built-in way for you to do that.

I would spawn another process to check on the process you spawned using the process id: proc.pid

Example command for getting pid usage in Linux: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1221597/536950

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Mar 27 '17 at 06:55

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I need a cross-platform answer for this, not just limited to Linux, but spanning BSD and OSX as well. I didn't have a Linux tag on this question for this reason. – Coder Mar 27 '17 at 17:09

Accessing process object from child_process.spawn

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