Problems spawning processes in Windows

[cowboyd]

When you spawn a child process in windows,

1. it does not die when you call process.kill
2. causes a separate window to open up every time

Potentially related https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32705857/cant-kill-child-process-on-windows ?

Consider using [execa] ?

[taras]

execa looks like a good way to go. I tried cross-spawn and it doesn't support SIGTERM, hopefully execa does.

[taras]

For reference nodejs/node#12378

[jbolda]

In execa, it tries SIGTERM and if no response then falls back to SIGKILL.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa#killsignal-options

Seems to be the quickest win here. Drop in execa and if in the future more control is required, back it out with good test coverage.

GitHub

sindresorhus/execa

Process execution for humans. Contribute to sindresorhus/execa development by creating an account on GitHub.

[cowboyd]

@jbolda agree, let's see if we can just use execa.