you can throw anything in js, even an empty string.
(a good way to break a test framework)
would this work?
stderr.on('drain', function () {
process.exit(1)
})
console.error('fail')
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Alan Gutierrez <a...@prettyrobots.com> wrote:
> I'm writing command line utilities in Node.js. Here's a snippet that is
> a source of some concern for me.
>
> try {
> options = require('arguable')(__filename);
> } catch (error) {
> console.error('error: ' + e.message);
> console.error(e.usage);
> process.exit(1);
> }
>
> frobinate(options.severity);
>
> Essentially, I'm calling an options parser and finding errors that
> prevent me form continuing. I want to exit with a non-zero exit code.
>
> However, if I exit abruptly, I find that the console is not always
> flushed. Sometimes on Windows. Sometimes when piping stderr.
>
> I'm wondering when I can count on a flush of stderr before exit, when I
> can't, and what you feel is the right way to exit from a command line
> program, if you have any thoughts on the matter.
>
> Currently, I'm creating a main function, surrounding that in a try/catch
> block, and throwing special exceptions to indicate that the error does
> not involve a stack trace.
>
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