Source: node-exit Section: web Priority: extra Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Thorsten Alteholz Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) , dh-buildinfo , nodejs Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Homepage: https://github.com/cowboy/node-exit Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-javascript/node-exit.git Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-javascript/node-exit.git Package: node-exit Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs Description: replacement for process.exit that ensures stdio is fully drained 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. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.