The explanation for the `options` argument to `fs.watchFile()` had
missing punctuation. I took the opportunity to try to rewrite the
paragraph for greater clarity.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2425
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brendan Ashworth <brendan.ashworth@me.com>
As per the discussion in
https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2093#discussion_r34343965, this
patch documents the behavior of calling fs.watchFile() with a path that
does not yet exist.
This patch also includes a test which checks if a file not present, the
callback is invoked at least once and if the file is created after
the callback is invoked, it will be invoked again with new stat
objects.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2169
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Brendan Ashworth <brendan.ashworth@me.com>
Add string encoding option for fs.createReadStream and
fs.createWriteStream. and check argument type more strictly
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1845
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Clarify that synchronous functions in fs with no return value return
undefined.
Specify that fs.openSync() returns an integer and fs.existsSync()
returns true or false.
Fixes: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/9313
PR: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9359
Reviewed-By: Julien Gilli <julien.gilli@joyent.com>
PORT-FROM: joyent/node @ 51fe319faf
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1770
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Conflicts:
doc/api/fs.markdown
At the moment users who want to use `fs.exists` get a warning that the
method is deprecated but do not get offered an alternative in the page.
This PR suggests `fs.stat` and `fs.access` as alternatives while
keeping the warning about the use case in place.
Fixes: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1002
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1007
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Christian Tellnes <christian@tellnes.no>
This simplifies the stability index to 4 levels:
0 - deprecated
1 - experimental / feature-flagged
2 - stable
3 - locked
Domains has been downgraded to deprecated, assert has been
downgraded to stable. Timers and Module remain locked. All
other APIs are now stable.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/943
Fixes: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/930
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Vladimir Kurchatkin <vladimir.kurchatkin@gmail.com>
Currently, fs.truncate() silently fails when a file descriptor
is passed as the first argument. This commit changes this
behavior to properly call fs.ftruncate().
PR-URL: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9161
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy J Fontaine <tjfontaine@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Conflicts:
lib/fs.js
Update docs, comments and code to use ES6 octal literals instead of
decimal + comment.
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/281
Reviewed-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
fs.exists() and fs.existsSync() do not follow the typical
error first callback convention. access() and accessSync()
are added as alternatives in this commit.
Fixes: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/8714
PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/114
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>
The parameter parser specifically looked for the old bracket syntax.
This generated a lot of warnings when building the docs. Those warnings
have been fixed by changing the parsing logic.
Signed-off-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Documentation incorrectly used bracket notation for optional parameters.
This caused inconsistencies in usage because of examples like the
following:
fs.write(fd, data[, position[, encoding]], callback)
This simply fixes all uses of bracket notation in documentation.
Signed-off-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
Currently fs.watch does not have an option to specify if a directory
should be recursively watched for events across all subdirectories.
Several file watcher APIs support this. FSEvents on OS X > 10.5 is
one example. libuv has added support for FSEvents, but fs.watch had
no way to specify that a recursive watch was required.
fs.watch now has an additional boolean option 'recursive'. When set
to true, and when supported, fs.watch will return notifications for
the entire directory tree hierarchy rooted at the specified path.
Flags and modes aren't the same, symlinks are followed in all of the
path but the last component, docs should say something about what the
mode argument is for and when its used, fs.openSync should point to the
function that contains the docs for its args, as fs.writeSync does.
Prior, strings would first be converted to a Buffer before being written
to disk. Now the intermediary step has been removed.
Other changes of note:
* Class member "must_free" was added to req_wrap so to track if the
memory needs to be manually cleaned up after use.
* External String Resource support, so the memory will be used directly
instead of copying out the data.
* Docs have been updated to reflect that if position is not a number
then it will assume null. Previously it specified the argument must be
null, but that was not how the code worked. An attempt was made to
only support == null, but there were too many tests that assumed !=
number would be enough.
* Docs update show some of the write/writeSync arguments are optional.
On Linux, positional writes don't work when the file is opened in
append mode. The kernel ignores the position argument and always
appends the data to the end of the file.
To quote the man page:
POSIX requires that opening a file with the O_APPEND flag should have
no affect on the location at which pwrite() writes data. However, on
Linux, if a file is opened with O_APPEND, pwrite() appends data to the
end of the file, regardless of the value of offset.
Use a default callback if the user omitted one. Avoids errors like the one
below:
fs.js:777
if (err) return callback(err);
^
TypeError: object is not a function
at fs.appendFile (fs.js:777:21)
at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:297:15)
This commit fixes the behavior of fs.lchmod(), fs.lchown() and fs.readFile()
when the callback is omitted. Before, they silently swallowed errors.
Fixes#4352.
Before this commit, `fs.unwatchFile(path)` removed *all* listeners for `path`.
The function is overloaded now: `fs.unwatchFile(path)` still removes all
listeners, but `fs.unwatchFile(path, cb)` lets you remove a specific listener.
Fixes#3660.