What is the Windows equivalent of process.on('SIGINT') in node.js?

Question

I'm following the guidance here (listening for SIGINT events) to gracefully shutdown my Windows-8-hosted node.js application in response to Ctrl+C or server shutdown.

But Windows doesn't have SIGINT. I also tried process.on('exit'), but that seems to late to do anything productive.

On Windows, this code gives me: Error: No such module

process.on( 'SIGINT', function() {   console.log( "\ngracefully shutting down from  SIGINT (Crtl-C)" )   // wish this worked on Windows   process.exit( ) }) 

On Windows, this code runs, but is too late to do anything graceful:

process.on( 'exit', function() {   console.log( "never see this log message" ) }) 

Is there a SIGINT equivalent event on Windows?

Answer 1

You have to use the readline module and listen for a SIGINT event:

http://nodejs.org/api/readline.html#readline_event_sigint

if (process.platform === "win32") {   var rl = require("readline").createInterface({     input: process.stdin,     output: process.stdout   });    rl.on("SIGINT", function () {     process.emit("SIGINT");   }); }  process.on("SIGINT", function () {   //graceful shutdown   process.exit(); });