On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Alan Gutierrez <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd written a node program that would detect if stdout was a TTY and if so,
> it would print an ASCII progress bar. If not, it would just print a message
> when it was done. I would call this program from `bash`, and `bash` was in
> turn called from another node program. With inherited file handles, the
> child could write directly to the stdout of its grand parent.
>
> I'd found that `bash` programs were good for gluing together node programs,
> communicating through standard I/O.
>
> Is there anything to replace file handle inheritance now that `customFDs` is
> deprecated? Given that I'm not programming for Windows, can someone tell me
> why file handle inheritance is bad and had to go away.
>
> I'll accept as my answer a reading assignment. I recall there being a `gist`
> with Issac's rationale, but I can't find it.

We had a change of heart. `customFds` is coming back in v0.8. :-)

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