From 7ee15457edbd634c85b69fb3b865c4e27b17b672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mustansir Golawala <mgolawala@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:29:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] os: add cross platform EOL character

---
 doc/api/os.markdown    | 3 +++
 lib/os.js              | 2 ++
 test/simple/test-os.js | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/api/os.markdown b/doc/api/os.markdown
index 0a8a17fd39..33eb9b6317 100644
--- a/doc/api/os.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/os.markdown
@@ -129,3 +129,6 @@ Get a list of network interfaces:
       vmnet8: [ { address: '10.88.88.1', family: 'IPv4', internal: false } ],
       ppp0: [ { address: '10.2.0.231', family: 'IPv4', internal: false } ] }
 
+## os.EOL
+
+A constant defining the appropriate End-of-line marker for the operating system.
diff --git a/lib/os.js b/lib/os.js
index 8bd421b087..c21971c84b 100644
--- a/lib/os.js
+++ b/lib/os.js
@@ -42,3 +42,5 @@ exports.getNetworkInterfaces = function() {
 };
 module.deprecate('getNetworkInterfaces',
                  'It is now called `os.networkInterfaces`.');
+
+exports.EOL = process.platform === 'win32' ? '\r\n' : '\n';
diff --git a/test/simple/test-os.js b/test/simple/test-os.js
index 92d1a264c1..a70142f9f7 100644
--- a/test/simple/test-os.js
+++ b/test/simple/test-os.js
@@ -79,3 +79,6 @@ switch (platform) {
     assert.deepEqual(actual, expected);
     break;
 }
+
+var EOL = os.EOL;
+assert.ok(EOL.length > 0);