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. :-) -- 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
