TL;DR : How does one fork a process that is located outside of the current running process?
I'm trying to use child_process
of Nodejs in order to start another nodejs process on the parent's process exit.
I successfully executed the process with the exec
but I need the child process be independent of the parent, so the parent can exit without waiting for the child, hence I tried using spawn
with the detached: true, stdio: 'ignore'
option and unref()
ing the process:
setting options.detached to true makes it possible for the child process to continue running after the parent exits.
spawn('node MY_PATH', [], {detached: true, stdio: 'ignore'}).unref();
This yields the :
node MY_PATH ENOENT
error. which unfortunately I've failed resolve.
After having troubles achieving this with spawn
and reading the documentationagain i figured i should actually use fork
:
The child_process.fork() method is a special case of child_process.spawn() used specifically to spawn new Node.js processes.
fork()
doesnt take a command as its' first argument, but a modulePath
which i can't seem to fit since the script I'm trying to run as a child process isnt in the directory of the current running process, but in a dependency of his.
Back to the starting TL;DR - how does one fork a process that is located outside of the current running process?
Any help would be much appreciated!
EDIT:
Providing a solution to the spawn
ENOENT error could be very helpfull too!