Document --inspect-port, and fix the reporting for when it is misused.
The option requires an argument, but when the argument was omitted, the
error message incorrectly reported --inspect-port as being bad, as if
was not supported at all:
% node --inspect-port
node: bad option: --inspect-port
% node --none-such
node: bad option: --none-such
It is now correctly reported as requiring an argument:
% ./node --inspect-port
./node: --inspect-port requires an argument
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12581
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Not all CLI options are supported, those that are problematic from a
security or implementation point of view are disallowed, as are ones
that are inappropriate (for example, -e, -p, --i), or that only make
sense when changed with code changes (such as options that change the
javascript syntax or add new APIs).
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12028
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Bradley Farias <bradley.meck@gmail.com>
Command line flag and environment variable that can be used to
indicate that pending deprecations should be emitted.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11968
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Document that `node --inspect=${port}` is also a viable option.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12149
Reviewed-By: Eugene Ostroukhov <eostroukhov@google.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Add support for abi stable module API (N-API) as "Experimental feature".
The goal of this API is to provide a stable Node API for native
module developers. N-API aims to provide ABI compatibility guarantees
across different Node versions and also across different
Node VMs - allowing N-API enabled native modules to just work
across different versions and flavors of Node.js without recompilation.
A more detailed introduction is provided in:
https://github.com/nodejs/node-eps/blob/master/005-ABI-Stable-Module-API.md
and https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/blob/doc/VM%20Summit.pdf.
The feature, during its experimental state, will be guarded by a runtime
flag "--napi-modules". Only when this flag is added to the command line
will N-API modules along with regular non N-API modules be supported.
The API is defined by the methods in "src/node_api.h" and
"src/node_api_types.h". This is the best
starting point to review the API surface. More documentation will follow.
In addition to the implementation of the API using V8, which is included
in this PR, the API has also been validated against chakracore and that
port is available in
https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/tree/api-prototype-chakracore-8.x.
The current plan is to provide N-API support in versions 8.X and 6.X
directly. For older versions, such as 4.X or pre N-API versions of 6.X,
we plan to create an external npm module to provide a migration path
that will allow modules targeting older Node.js versions to use the API,
albeit without getting the advantage of not having to recompile.
In addition, we also plan an external npm package with C++ sugar to
simplify the use of the API. The sugar will be in-line only and will
only use the exported N-API methods but is not part of the N-API
itself. The current version is in:
https://github.com/nodejs/node-api.
This PR is a result of work in the abi-stable-node repo:
https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/tree/doc,
with this PR being the cumulative work on the api-prototype-8.x
branch with the following contributors in alphabetical order:
Author: Arunesh Chandra <arunesh.chandra@microsoft.com>
Author: Gabriel Schulhof <gabriel.schulhof@intel.com>
Author: Hitesh Kanwathirtha <hiteshk@microsoft.com>
Author: Ian Halliday <ianhall@microsoft.com>
Author: Jason Ginchereau <jasongin@microsoft.com>
Author: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Author: Sampson Gao <sampsong@ca.ibm.com>
Author: Taylor Woll <taylor.woll@microsoft.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11975
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Nothing but trouble can ever come from it.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12057
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Adding documentation to node.1 and cli.md
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11660
Reviewed-By: Eugene Ostroukhov <eostroukhov@google.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
A side-effect of https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/82
was to remove support for OPENSSL_CONF, as well as removing the default
read of a configuration file on startup.
Partly revert this, allowing OPENSSL_CONF to be used to specify a
configuration file to read on startup, but do not read a file by
default.
If the --openssl-config command line option is provided, its value is
used, not the OPENSSL_CONF environment variable.
Fix: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/10938
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11006
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
The --redirect-warnings command line argument allows process warnings
to be written to a specified file rather than printed to stderr.
Also adds an equivalent NODE_REDIRECT_WARNINGS environment variable.
If the specified file cannot be opened or written to for any reason,
the argument is ignored and the warning is printed to stderr.
If the file already exists, it will be appended to.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10116
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Michal Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
When the double dash "--" appears after "-e <script>" on the
command line, it indicates the end of options and the beginning
of positional parameters for the script.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10651
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8334
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
This commit adds support for a NODE_NO_WARNINGS environment
variable, which duplicates the functionality of the --no-warnings
command line flag.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/10802
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10842
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
- add missing environment variables to --help
- add missing flags to man page
- sort environment variables alphabetically
- add some highlighting to the man page
- remove stops from descriptions in --help for consistency
- few other minor tweaks to --help
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10157
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Italo A. Casas <me@italoacasas.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
* Add documentation for `--openssl-conf=file`.
* Fix openssl.cnf loading and OpenSSL init ordering
* Fix FIPS tests so `OPENSSL_CONF` is not longer usable but
`--openssl-conf` is
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/82
Reviewed-By: Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@iij.ad.jp>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
* Added traditional BUGS, AUTHORS and COPYRIGHT sections
* Fixed some minor issues with the IRC links
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8902
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
* The header's comments were written incorrectly. A comment line in Roff
starts with a .\" sequence, whereas .\ is attempting to call a command
whose name starts with a space. Because Roff interpreters will discard
unrecognised control lines, the malformed "comments" were just noops.
* Repeating font macros have been used to format the synopsis instead of
escape sequences (\fB…\fR). This makes for admittedly more sustainable
source code for an editor who lacks knowledge of Roff.
* A basic macro has been added to insert highlighted URLs with less line
noise. To insert a bold and underlined URL on a new line, one only has
to write ".ur http://…"
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7819
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Add the `--preserve-symlinks` flag. This makes the changes added
in #5950 conditional. By default the old behavior is used. With
the flag set, symlinks are preserved, switching to the new
behavior. This should be considered to be a temporary solution
until we figure out how to solve the symlinked peer dependency
problem in a more general way that does not break everything
else.
Additional test cases are included.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6537
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
In several places throughout the code we write directly to stderr
to report warnings (deprecation, possible eventemitter memory leak).
The current design of simply dumping the text to stderr is less
than ideal. This PR introduces a new "process warnings" mechanism
that emits 'warning' events on the global process object. These are
invoked with a `warning` argument whose value is an Error object.
By default, these warnings will be printed to stderr. This can be
suppressed using the `--no-warnings` and `--no-deprecation` command
line flags. For warnings, the 'warning' event will still be emitted
by the process, allowing applications to handle the warnings in custom
ways. The existing `--no-deprecation` flag will continue to supress
all deprecation output generated by the core lib.
The `--trace-warnings` command line flag will tell Node.js to print
the full stack trace of warnings as part of the default handling.
The existing `--no-deprecation`, `--throw-deprecation` and
`--trace-deprecation` flags continue to work as they currently do,
but the exact output of the warning message is modified to occur
on process.nextTick().
The stack trace for the warnings and deprecations preserve and point
to the correct call site.
A new `process.emitWarning()` API is provided to permit userland
to emit warnings and deprecations using the same consistent
mechanism.
Test cases and documentation are included.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4782
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Wyatt Preul <wpreul@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Based on the conversation in #4243 this implements a way to increase
and decrease the size of the thread pool used in v8.
Currently v8 restricts the thread pool size to `kMaxThreadPoolSize`
which at this commit is (4). So it is only possible to
decrease the thread pool size at the time of this commit. However with
changes upstream this could change at a later date.
If set to 0 then v8 would choose an appropriate size of the thread pool
based on the number of online processors.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4344
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Uses better troff formatting.
Removes v8 options from the man page.
Also edits `node -h` in node.cc slightly.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5497
Reviewed-By: James Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Several changes:
* Soft-Deprecate Buffer() constructors
* Add `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.alloc()`, and `Buffer.allocUnsafe()`
* Add `--zero-fill-buffers` command line option
* Add byteOffset and length to `new Buffer(arrayBuffer)` constructor
* buffer.fill('') previously had no effect, now zero-fills
* Update the docs
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4682
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
This change cleans up outstanding comments on #3032. It improves error
handling when no isolate file is provided and adds the --prof-process
flag to the node binary which executes the tick processor on the
provided isolate file.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4021
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2411
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
- Added NODE_REPL_HISTORY to the environment variables in the --help
and made all descriptions start with lower case for consistency.
- Added NODE_REPL_HISTORY and NODE_ICU_DATA to the man page.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2690
Reviewed-By: fishrock123 - Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: evanlucas - Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
This commit replaces instances of io.js with Node.js, based on the
recent convergence. There are some remaining instances of io.js,
related to build and the installer.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2361
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2367
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: João Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>
This adds a new `--tls-cipher-list` command line switch
that can be used to override the built-in default cipher
list. The intent of this is to make it possible to enforce
an alternative default cipher list at the process level.
Overriding the default cipher list is still permitted at
the application level by changing the value of
`require('tls').DEFAULT_CIPHERS`.
As part of the change, the built in default list is moved
out of tls.js and into node_constants.h and node_constants.cc.
Two new constants are added to require('constants'):
* defaultCipherList (the active default cipher list)
* defaultCoreCipherList (the built-in default cipher list)
A test case and doc changes are included.
A new NODE_DEFINE_STRING_CONSTANT macro is also created in
node_internals.h
When node_constants is initialized, it will pick up either
the passed in command line switch or fallback to the default
built-in suite.
Within joyent/node, this change had originaly been wrapped
up with a number of other related commits involving the
removal of the RC4 cipher. This breaks out this isolated
change.
/cc @mhdawson, @misterdjules, @trevnorris, @indutny, @rvagg
Reviewed By: Ben Noordhuis <ben@strongloop.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2412
- This makes v8 add .trace_function_info to the serialized form of
snapshots from v8::HeapSnapshot::Serialize
- .trace_funciton_info combined with .trace_node in snapshots tells the
JS location that allocated a specific object
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2135
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Remove obsolete references to the removed --max-stack-size switch.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1327
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
This patch adds a command line option (-r/--require) that allows one
to provide modules on the command line that will be 'required' during
node startup. This can be useful for debugging, tracing, memory leak
analysis etc. to be preloaded without explicit changes to the user
script. The option can be repeated to preload multiple modules.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/881
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
This feature has no tests and has been broken for ages, see for example
https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1160. Don't bother fixing it, it's
pretty much broken by design and there can't be too many users because
it's almost undocumented. A quick Google search suggests that it causes
more grief than joy to the few that do use it. Remove it.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1162
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
This reverts commit 7bde3f1a8f.
The added test (test/parallel/test-preload.js) fails on Windows.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1150
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
-r/--require can be used to preload modules on node startup. The option
takes a single module name. The option can be repeated as necessary to
preload multiple modules.
This patch allows 'vendors' (such a cloud host) to inject functionality
that gets executed at application startup without requiring an explicit
require from the user's application. This can be useful to load vendor
specific application monitoring APIs transparently.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/881
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
The binary is about to be renamed from `node` to `iojs`; preemptively
update the man page.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/262
Reviewed-By: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Roman Reiss
Sam Roberts
Ebrahim Byagowi
James M Snell
Gibson Fahnestock
Jason Ginchereau
Jeremiah Senkpiel
Noj Vek
John Barboza
Adam Majer
cjihrig
Rod Vagg
Alex Jordan
Alhadis
justshiv
Tom Gallacher
Jérémy Lal
Nelson Pecora
Matt Loring
Michaël Zasso
Dave Hodder
Dave Eddy
Bradley Meck
Aria Stewart
Phillip Lamplugh
Ali Ijaz Sheikh
Ben Noordhuis
Chris Dickinson
Timothy J Fontaine