Child processes do not receive stdin about node-foreman

[rmg]

@zpnk I can't think of a way to pick one that won't be wrong as often as it is right. Which process does stdin get sent to with foreman?

[zpnk]

@rmg Thanks for the reply. I can't speak to the workings of foreman, but in theory (and this may be a terrible idea) all child processes could receive stdin and then could operate on it as needed.

My quick hack to get this working was to add the stdio option to the child process spawn here:

var child = prog.spawn(file, args, {
  env: proc.env,
  stdio: ['inherit', 'pipe', 'pipe'] // stdin=inherit, stdout & stderr=pipe (default, so events work)
});

This allowed nodemon to pick up 'rs' and restart. However, I realized that restarting nodemon kicks off a new node process which is then not killed when nf is exited. I'm not sure how that kind of issue could be solved.

If there was a good way of going about that, perhaps something like --inherit-stdin could be useful?

The use-case of running nodemon+watch is pretty dev-specific though, so it's probably a better fit for grunt/gulp.

I'll close, I don't want to litter your issues. :)