• Version: Future
• Platform: All
• Subsystem: child_process

This is a new feature request to add a flag (boolean) to child_process, called something along the lines of child_process.isRootProcess that would return true if the current process is the "root" of the child_process.fork tree or false if the current process was a forked process and has an upstream ipc channel.

In essence this is a simple one-liner inside of child_process:

child_process.isRootProcess = !!process.channel;

or something similar.