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A replacement for process.exit that ensures stdio are fully drained before exiting.

To make a long story short, ifprocess.exit is called on Windows, script output is often truncated when pipe-redirectingstdout orstderr. This module attempts to work around this issue by waiting until those streams have been completely drained before actually callingprocess.exit.

SeeNode.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.

Install the module with:npm install exit

varexit=require("exit");// These lines should appear in the output, EVEN ON WINDOWS.console.log("omg");console.error("yay");// process.exit(5);exit(5);// These lines shouldn't appear in the output.console.log("wtf");console.error("bro");

In Windows, clone the repo and cd to thetest\fixtures directory. The only difference betweenlog.js andlog-broken.js is that the former usesexit while the latter callsprocess.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.

C:\node-exit\test\fixtures>node log.js 0 10 stdout stderr 2>&1 | find "std"stdout 0stderr 0stdout 1stderr 1stdout 2stderr 2stdout 3stderr 3stdout 4stderr 4stdout 5stderr 5stdout 6stderr 6stdout 7stderr 7stdout 8stderr 8stdout 9stderr 9C:\node-exit\test\fixtures>node log-broken.js 0 10 stdout stderr 2>&1 | find "std"C:\node-exit\test\fixtures>

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 usingGrunt.

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.

Copyright (c) 2013 "Cowboy" Ben Alman
Licensed under the MIT license.