How to prevent Node.js from exiting while waiting for a callback?

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Callback is Not Queued

Node runs until all event queues are empty. A callback is added to an event queue when a call such as 

  emmiter1.on('this_event',callback).

has executed. This call is part of the code written by the module developer .

If a module is a quick port from a synchronous/blocking version, this may not happen til some part of the operation has completed and all the queues might empty before that occurs, allowing node to exit silently.

This is a sneaky bug, that is one that the module developer might not run into during development, as it will occur less often in busy systems with many queues as it will be rare for all of them to be empty at the critical time.

A possible fix/bug detector for the user is to insert a special timer event before the suspect function call.

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