It would be really nice to be able to exit a process gracefully on
SIGINT/SIGTERM. Right now both signals are hardwired to exit with a status
of 1 (see the SignalExit function in node.cc) without emitting the "exit"
event on the process object, but I don't see why that needs to be the case.

Ideally these signals would be handled just like any other signal. The
default may be to exit with a 1 status, but it would be nice to be able to
override this in userland.

A couple of real world use cases:

- Using Ctrl+C in a terminal that is attached to a running process
- Heroku's dyno manifold issues SIGTERM to processes to let them know they
are going to be restarted (see
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ps#graceful-shutdown-with-sigterm).
As it stands now there is no way to ensure that a running server doesn't
drop open connections during a deploy on Heroku.

What is the reason for the current behavior? Is there any way around it for
the use cases I've described?

Thanks in advance.

--
Michael Jackson
@mjackson

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