Provide an example for implementing browser like behavior for console.assert.
This "fixes" https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5340 by providing an
alternative to changing Node.js' implemented behavior. Instead, we
document the differences and show how to work around them if
browser like semantics are desired.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5340
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6169
Reviewed-By: Robert Jefe Lindstädt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeff Harris <@techjeffharris>
Make the builtin libraries available for the `--eval` and
`--print` CLI options, using the same mechanism that the
REPL uses.
This renders workarounds like `node -e 'require("fs").doStuff()'`
unnecessary.
As part of this, the list of builtin modules and the code for
adding the corresponding properties to the target context is moved
to `internal/module.js`, and the previously missing `repl` entry
is added.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6207
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Clarify in docs for require.cache that reloading native modules
isn't supported.
Related: #6160
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6168
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
On Linux and OS X systems, `fs.watch()` resolves the watched path to an
inode. This clarifies that `fs.watch()` watches the inode and not the
path. If the inode of the path subsequently changes, `fs.watch()` will
continue watching the original inode and events for the path will no
longer be emitted. This is expected behavior.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5039
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6099
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Up to now, `Z_FINISH` was always the flushing flag that was used
for the last chunk of input data. This patch makes this choice
configurable so that advanced users can perform e.g. decompression of
partial data using `Z_SYNC_FLUSH`, if that suits their needs.
Add tests to make sure that an error is thrown upon encountering
invalid `flush` or `finishFlush` flags.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5761
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6069
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
With the addition of `Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow(size)`
`SlowBuffer` can be deprecated... but docs-only for now.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5833
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Aligns the functionality of SlowBuffer with the new Buffer
constructor API. Next step is to docs-only deprecate
SlowBuffer.
Replace the internal uses of SlowBuffer with
`Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow(size)`
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5833
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Remove realpath() and realpathSync() cache.
Use the native uv_fs_realpath() which is faster
then the JS implementation by a few orders of magnitude.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3594
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Johan Bergström <bugs@bergstroem.nu>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6194
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
os.userInfo() calls libuv's uv_os_get_passwd() function. It returns
an object containing the current effective user's username, uid,
gid, shell, and home directory. On Windows, the uid and gid are
-1, and the shell is null.
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5582
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6104
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This commit refines the documentation around child.kill(), where kill
attempts against shells will lead to unexpected results. Namely, on
linux the child process of a child process will not terminate, when
its parent gets terminated. This is different across the the
platforms.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2098
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Closes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2098
Adds additional `targetStart`, `targetEnd`, `sourceStart,
and `sourceEnd` arguments to `Buffer.prototype.compare`
to allow comparison of sub-ranges of two Buffers without
requiring Buffer.prototype.slice()
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/521
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5880
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
This change was to add upon the algorithm description of path.format
by adding examples for unix systems that clarified behavior in
various scenarios.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5838
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Klauke <romaaan.git@gmail.com>
decipher.setAuthPadding canged to decipher.setAutoPadding
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6041
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Klauke <romaaan.git@gmail.com>
This commit adds documentation to the already publicly available
readline.emitKeypressEvents() method.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6024
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
Includes cli.markdown in all.markdown
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6011
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Rather than attempting to keep two versions of docs for timers up to
date, keep them in timers.markdown, and leave references to them in
globals.markdown.
Add setImmediate and clearImmediate to globals.markdown.
Change "To schedule" to "Schedules" in timers.markdown.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5837
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Claudio Rodriguez <cjrodr@yahoo.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
this adds an example of a long running node process that actually
executes node code.
Also it mentions the not to harmonic detach behaviours of the
different platforms, whereas detaching on unix requires ignoring
the child_process' stdio explicitely.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5330
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This commit adds support for passing DNS lookup hints to
createConnection().
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6000
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Rename `buffer` to `data` in param list of
fs.writeSync(fd, data[, position[, encoding]])
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5984
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Some old version parameter comments are left in fs.markdown. Remove
them.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5952
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Lindstädt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Convert anything to string, but Buffer, TypedArray and ArrayBuffer
```
var uint8 = new Uint8Array([0xf0, 0x9f, 0x90]);
Buffer.byteLength(uint8); // should be 3, but returns 11
Buffer.byteLength(uint8.buffer); // should be 3, but return 20
```
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5255
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Update example of readInt32LE method. buf.readInt32LE(1) is supposed to
throw an error as it has only four elements and it tries to read 32
bits from three bytes.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5889
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5890
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
This makes several changes:
1. Allow path/filename to be passed in as a Buffer on fs methods
2. Add `options.encoding` to fs.readdir, fs.readdirSync, fs.readlink,
fs.readlinkSync and fs.watch.
3. Documentation updates
For 1... it's now possible to do:
```js
fs.open(Buffer('/fs/foo/bar'), 'w+', (err, fd) => { });
```
For 2...
```js
fs.readdir('/fs/foo/bar', {encoding:'hex'}, (err,list) => { });
fs.readdir('/fs/foo/bar', {encoding:'buffer'}, (err, list) => { });
```
encoding can also be passed as a string
```js
fs.readdir('/fs/foo/bar', 'hex', (err,list) => { });
```
The default encoding is set to UTF8 so this addresses the
discrepency that existed previously between fs.readdir and
fs.watch handling filenames differently.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2088
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3519
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5616
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
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>
Implementing the suggestion in
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4554 this pull request renames
the parameter name in all the places that accept an event name as a parameter.
Previously, the parameter has been called `event` or `type`. Now as suggested
it is consistently called `eventName`.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5850
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Fail early in require('crypto'), require('tls'),
require('https'), etc when crypto is not available
(rather than depending on an internal try/catch).
Add documentation for detecting when crypto is not available.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5611
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Fixes a copy typo in the events.md docs.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5849
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
[Diffie-Hellman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange#Cryptographic_explanation)
keys are composed of a `generator` a `prime` a `secret_key`
and the `public_key` resulting from the math operation:
```
(generator ^ secret_key) mod prime = public_key
```
Diffie-Hellman keypairs will compute a matching shared secret
if and only if the generator and prime match for both
recipients. The generator is usually **2** and the prime is
what is called a [Safe Prime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_prime).
Usually this matching is accomplished by using
[standard published groups](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3526).
We expose access those groups with the `crypto.getDiffieHellman`
function.
`createDiffieHellman` is trickier to use. The original example
had the user creating 11 bit keys, and creating random groups of
generators and primes. 11 bit keys are very very small, can be
cracked by a single person on a single sheet of paper. A
byproduct of using such small keys were that it was a high
likelihood that two calls of `createDiffieHellman(11)` would
result in using the same 11 bit safe prime.
The original example code would fail when the safe primes generated
at 11 bit lengths did not match for alice and bob.
If you want to use your own generated safe `prime` then the proper
use of `createDiffieHellman` is to pass the `prime` and `generator`
to the recipient's constructor, so that when they compute the shared
secret their `prime` and `generator` match, which is fundamental to
the algorithm.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5505
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Added a hint saying that node uses the default "Cannot find module"
error when requiring a module for which the "main" file specified in
the package.json is missing.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5812
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This page is mostly a mirror of the updated manual page.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5787
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Lindstädt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Added appropriate in-document links. Clarified a bit of
`setImmediate`, including a quick grammar fix (plural possessive
apostrophe).
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5792
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
This uses libuv's mkdtemp function to provide a way to create a
temporary folder, using a prefix as the path. The prefix is appended
six random characters. The callback function will receive the name
of the folder that was created.
Usage example:
fs.mkdtemp('/tmp/foo-', function(err, folder) {
console.log(folder);
// Prints: /tmp/foo-Tedi42
});
The fs.mkdtempSync version is also provided. Usage example:
console.log(fs.mkdtemp('/tmp/foo-'));
// Prints: tmp/foo-Tedi42
This pull request also includes the relevant documentation changes
and tests.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5333
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Brings tls.markdown into alignment with the node.js
styleguide, specifically regarding the use of
personal pronouns. Also, fixes various typos,
punctuation errors, missing definite/indefinite
articles and other minor grammatical issues.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5706
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Alexander Gromnitsky
James M Snell
Anna Henningsen
Bryan English
Alexander Makarenko
Joran Dirk Greef
Yuval Brik
Rich Trott
Amery
cjihrig
Robert Jefe Lindstaedt
John Eversole
Brad Hill
Brendon Pierson
firedfox
Jackson Tian
ghaiklor
Benjamin Gruenbaum
Corey Kosak
Bill Automata
Jackson Tian
Wolfgang Steiner
Jeremiah Senkpiel
Mithun Patel
Florian MARGAINE
Stefano Vozza