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1 # signal-exit 2 3 [](https://travis-ci.org/tapjs/signal-exit) 4 [](https://coveralls.io/r/tapjs/signal-exit?branch=master) 5 [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/signal-exit) 6 [](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) 7 8 When you want to fire an event no matter how a process exits: 9 10 * reaching the end of execution. 11 * explicitly having `process.exit(code)` called. 12 * having `process.kill(pid, sig)` called. 13 * receiving a fatal signal from outside the process 14 15 Use `signal-exit`. 16 17 ```js 18 var onExit = require('signal-exit') 19 20 onExit(function (code, signal) { 21 console.log('process exited!') 22 }) 23 ``` 24 25 ## API 26 27 `var remove = onExit(function (code, signal) {}, options)` 28 29 The return value of the function is a function that will remove the 30 handler. 31 32 Note that the function *only* fires for signals if the signal would 33 cause the process to exit. That is, there are no other listeners, and 34 it is a fatal signal. 35 36 ## Options 37 38 * `alwaysLast`: Run this handler after any other signal or exit 39 handlers. This causes `process.emit` to be monkeypatched.