I wonder why node doesn't just expose a sync version of the zlib functions. It's not like they are performing I/O or anything. FWIW I intend to have both sync and async in luvit's zlib bindings unless there is a good reason not to.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:30 AM, dhruvbird <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > You could (at least in theory) spawn a gzip process that writes to a > FIFO* (named pipe) and then use fs.readFileSync() to read that FIFO. > Your process should block till you have completed reading in the FIFO. > Create a wrapper function to do this an you have a blocking gzip() > routine! > > * Might not work on windows. > > Regards, > -Dhruv. > > On Apr 18, 5:12 am, Axel Kittenberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there some easy way to make yourself a zlib.gzipSync wrapper around > > the nodes default callback/pipe interface to zlib? (Without streamline > > or fibers) > > > > Its for the server startup sequence where it generates one hugh > > javascript file for the client side to download and it keeps it raw as > > well gzipped in memory. It does read the files with readSyncFile etc. > > So yes I want the node process to be halted until it is done. Its fine > > it takes 2 seconds, so please don't argue it could do this or that in > > parallel. I also do the other *Sync calls for startup. I just want to > > keep that simple please. > > > > - Axel > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
