On Friday, August 17, 2012 6:49:14 PM UTC-7, Jimb Esser wrote: > > In actuality, fs.exists *only* has an err argument... or really a "not > err" argument. "fs.exists" is just "not fs.stat". If you want fs.exists > to have an error as the first argument, do "my_fs_exists = fs.stat", and > it'll have exactly the same results (though will be slightly faster). > > But, yeah, slightly awkwardly different signature, though the "err" > argument of an "exists" query is basically meaningless, and "exists" was > not originally part of the "fs" module, so it's understandable. >
I don't think it's meaningless. If the fs returns an I/O error, you can't say that the file doesn't exist. -- 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
