exit
A replacement for process.exit that ensures stdio are fully drained before exiting.
To make a long story short, if process.exit
is called on Windows, script output is often truncated when pipe-redirecting stdout
or stderr
. This module attempts to work around this issue by waiting until those streams have been completely drained before actually calling process.exit
.
See Node.js issue #3584 for further reference.
Tested in OS X 10.8, Windows 7 on Node.js 0.8.25 and 0.10.18.
Based on some code by @vladikoff.
Getting Started
Install the module with: npm install exit
Don't believe me? Try it for yourself.
In Windows, clone the repo and cd to the test\fixtures
directory. The only difference between log.js and log-broken.js is that the former uses exit
while the latter calls process.exit
directly.
This test was done using cmd.exe, but you can see the same results using | grep "std"
in either PowerShell or git-bash.
Contributing
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.
Release History
2013-11-26 - v0.1.2 - Fixed a bug with hanging processes. 2013-09-26 - v0.1.1 - Fixed some bugs. It seems to actually work now! 2013-09-20 - v0.1.0 - Initial release.
License
Copyright (c) 2013 "Cowboy" Ben Alman Licensed under the MIT license.
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