Possible feature request: patch process.exit directly instead of offering a replacement function?

[dead-claudia]

I'm pretty sure that you could directly patch the process global itself for this (although that breaks every styleguide in existence), only requiring a single import statement for the entire program in its "index.js"/equivalent.

I have verified that it actually patches the property globally, as this code works as you would think:

// a.js
console.log('typeof process.exit: ' + typeof process.exit);
var exit = require('./b');
console.log('typeof process.exit: ' + typeof process.exit);
console.log('process.exit value: ' + process.exit);
process.exit = exit;
exit();

// b.js
var exit = process.exit;
process.exit = 1;
module.exports = exit;

Output:
typeof process.exit: function
typeof process.exit: number
process.exit value: 1

I'm not sure if this would be a good idea or not, so this is more of a conceptual proposal than anything.

[dead-claudia]

Also, I would like to mention that it would add an extra argument to the global function, but only edge cases would be affected (those depending on the nonexistence of the argument, length can be patched).