process

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Overview

Package process provides cross-platform process management utilities.

This package abstracts platform differences in process handling:

• Signal handling (Windows lacks SIGTERM, uses Kill instead)
• Process group management (Unix has Setpgid, Windows does not)
• Daemon/service detachment patterns

Platform-specific implementations are in process_unix.go and process_windows.go.

Index

• func FindAndSignal(pid int) error
• func SetDetached(cmd *exec.Cmd)
• func Signal(pid int) error

Functions

func FindAndSignal

func FindAndSignal(pid int) error

FindAndSignal finds a process by PID and sends a termination signal. Returns an error if the process cannot be found or signaled.

func SetDetached

func SetDetached(cmd *exec.Cmd)

SetDetached configures a command to run detached from the parent process. On Unix, this sets up a new process group. On Windows, this is a no-op as basic detachment works differently.

func Signal

func Signal(pid int) error

Signal sends a termination signal to the process with the given PID. On Unix, this sends SIGTERM. On Windows, this calls Process.Kill() since Windows doesn't support SIGTERM.