npm: Globally monkey-patch graceful-fs

PR-URL: https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/8735

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/npm.js b/lib/npm.js
index 30a42412d..8a079c21f 100644
--- a/lib/npm.js
+++ b/lib/npm.js
@@ -13,11 +13,15 @@
     return
   }
 
+  var gfs = require('graceful-fs')
+  // Patch the global fs module here at the app level
+  var fs = gfs.gracefulify(require('fs'))
+
   var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter
   var npm = module.exports = new EventEmitter()
   var npmconf = require('./config/core.js')
   var log = require('npmlog')
-  var fs = require('graceful-fs')
+
   var path = require('path')
   var abbrev = require('abbrev')
   var which = require('which')