https://github.com/bahamas10/node-raise

Send a signal to the current process (see raise(3))
https://github.com/bahamas10/node-raise

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Send a signal to the current process (see raise(3))

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bahamas10/node-raise
• Owner: bahamas10
• Created: 2013-06-09T22:11:49.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-06-09T22:12:24.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T01:24:25.842Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 105 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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raise

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Send a signal to the current process (see `raise(3)`)

Installation

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    npm install raise

Usage

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``` js

var raise = require('raise');

// unceremoniously end this process

raise('SIGKILL');

```

Uses

----

This can be useful for debugging purposes.  A lot of times I've used DTrace

to pause a process when it hits a certain code path so I can inspect its

memory.  With this module, you can simply add a `raise` statement where

you would like to send a signal to the process.

``` js

var raise = require('raise');

var a = [];

for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {

  a.push(a); // obvious bug

  // say you thought this function was a problem, but you couldn't identify why,

  // pause the process on the 10th iteration to coredump and inspect the memory

  if (i === 10) raise('SIGSTOP');

}

```

License

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MIT