Source: node-exit Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Thorsten Alteholz Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , node-which , nodeunit Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-exit Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-exit.git Homepage: https://github.com/cowboy/node-exit Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-exit Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} Provides: ${nodejs:Provides} 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 . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.