silverwind / rebirth

Restart a node process from within itself

rebirth

Restart a node process from within itself

Restarting is done by spawning a detached copy of the current process and subsequently ending the running process. The new child will be orphaned and parented to PID 1 (init/systemd/launchd).

Installation

$ npm install --save rebirth

Example

const rebirth = require('rebirth');

rebirth();
// process restarts

Notes:

• To detect if a process was reborn, check if process.env.REBORN is '1';
• Standard streams will be inherited by default. When running in a terminal, this means stdout/stderr will still print to that terminal after a restart. If you don't care about these streams, set opts.stdio = 'ignore'.

API

rebirth([options])

• options {Object} Takes the same options as child_process.spawn.

© silverwind, distributed under BSD licence

rebirth's Issues

version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 do not contain any js content

Error: Cannot find module 'rebirth'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)

Windows support

The spawning part seems to work, but something is killing the orphaned child shortly after it parents to the explorer.exe process. I doubt this is solveable through JavaScript alone, but I know it's somehow possible.

OSX support

Surprisingly, it didn't work on Darwin.

Inherit stdin

May be possible with some kind of intermediate process to hand over the stream.