Get commands/processes list OR How to kill some concurrently process from outside

[SARFEX]

Subj

Actually, I want to restart a single process by "killing" it, from the same place, where I have initiated concurrently.
How can I do this?

[gustavohenke]

Hi @SARFEX,
One such way is to grab the PID off of the output. It's not great, I know!

[gustavohenke]

An idea I have is to expand the returned value of the programmatic API to be something like this:

const commands = concurrently(['echo foo', 'echo bar'], options);
commands.result // promise that resolves/rejects according to the success condition of the options
commands.pids // an array of PIDs

// could have more useful stuff

WDYT? This would be a major/breaking change then.

[aalimovs]

@gustavohenke what about expanding the input handling functionality and adding ability to restart a process? E.g. srv:restart 0:restart. There could be a conflict where you might actually want to pass restart as an input to the process, we could escape it with srv:!restart, and use it for any future commands too

[alexweininger]

This would be really useful for me. I'd be willing to help with this feature. We could potentially avoid a breaking change by adding a flag or a callback.

But if the breaking change is too large, is there another tool like concurrently that can expose the pids?

[gustavohenke]

Happy new year! This is now out in v7.0.0.