spawn stdio options can be a 'stream', but the following code
fails with "Incorrect value for stdio stream: [object Object]",
despite being a stream. The problem is the test isn't really
for a stream, its for an object with a numeric `.fd` property,
and streams do not have an fd until their async 'open' event
has occurred. This is reasonable, but was not documented.
child_process.spawn('date', [], {stdio: [
'ignore',
fs.createWriteStream('out.txt',{flags:'a'}),
'ignore']})
There was a flaw in the old API that has been fixed. Now the
asyncListener callback is now the "create" object property in the
callback object, and is optional.
The fact that the "exit" event passes the exit code as an argument
as omitted from the documentation. This adds the explanation and
augments the example code to show that.
The UNIX domain is also known as the LOCAL domain (AF_LOCAL), and
node/libuv implements it on Windows using named pipes. The API
documentation did not describe the naming rules for named pipes, and
also repeatedly described `listen(path)` as being UNIX, which it is not
on Windows.
Closes#6743
This adds two new member functions getAuthTag and setAuthTag that
are useful for AES-GCM encryption modes. Use getAuthTag after
Cipheriv.final, transmit the tag along with the data and use
Decipheriv.setAuthTag to have the encrypted data verified.
The null signal test existed, but only tested the case where the target
process existed, not when it did not exist.
Also clarified that SIGUSR1 is reserved by Node.js only for receiveing,
its not at all reserved when sending a signal with kill().
kill(pid, 'O_RDWR'), or any other node constant, "worked". I fixed this
by also checking for 'SIG'. The same as done in the isSignal() function.
Now the signal names supported by process.kill() are the same as those
supported by process.on().
Add a 'serialNumber' property to the object that is returned by
tls.CryptoStream#getPeerCertificate(). Contains the certificate's
serial number encoded as a hex string. The format is identical to
`openssl x509 -serial -in path/to/certificate`.
Fixes#6583.
As discussed on the mailing list: the module will not go away but the
API will continue to receive updates as the need arises.
Link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/uqyTcQfimAI
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