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# foreground-child
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[](https://travis-ci.org/tapjs/foreground-child) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/isaacs/foreground-child)
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Run a child as if it's the foreground process. Give it stdio. Exit
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when it exits.
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Mostly this module is here to support some use cases around wrapping
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child processes for test coverage and such.
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## USAGE
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```js
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var foreground = require('foreground-child')
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// cats out this file
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var child = foreground('cat', [__filename])
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// At this point, it's best to just do nothing else.
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// return or whatever.
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// If the child gets a signal, or just exits, then this
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// parent process will exit in the same way.
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```
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A callback can optionally be provided, if you want to perform an action
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before your foreground-child exits:
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```js
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var child = foreground('cat', [__filename], function (done) {
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// perform an action.
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return done()
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})
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```
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## Caveats
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The "normal" standard IO file descriptors (0, 1, and 2 for stdin,
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stdout, and stderr respectively) are shared with the child process.
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Additionally, if there is an IPC channel set up in the parent, then
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messages are proxied to the child on file descriptor 3.
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However, in Node, it's possible to also map arbitrary file descriptors
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into a child process. In these cases, foreground-child will not map
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the file descriptors into the child. If file descriptors 0, 1, or 2
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are used for the IPC channel, then strange behavior may happen (like
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printing IPC messages to stderr, for example).
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Note that a SIGKILL will always kill the parent process, _and never
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the child process_, because SIGKILL cannot be caught or proxied. The
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only way to do this would be if Node provided a way to truly exec a
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process as the new foreground program in the same process space,
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without forking a separate child process.
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