@gifyourgame/spawn-as-admin
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spawn-as-admin
Run commands with administrator privileges
Installing
npm install spawn-as-admin
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spawnAsAdmin(command, arguments)
Launches a new process with the given command
, and arguments
.
Returns an AdminProcess
object that implements a subset of node's ChildProcess
API:
Properties:
pid
- The child process's process ID.stdin
- AWritableStream
representing the process's standard input.stdout
- AReadableStream
representing the process's standard output.
Methods:
kill([signal])
- Sends the givensignal
to the child process. If no signal is specified,SIGTERM
will be sent.
Events:
exit
- Emitted when the process exits, and passes the exit code of the process.
Limitations
- The library only works on macOS and Windows.
- The
stdin
andstdout
properties are only present on macOS.