Yeah when I was talking about read(n) I mean new streams, you could do a
similar dance for old streams but there would be more buffering if pause is
not respected.


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Raynos,
> Thank you for your reply. I just want to confirm: did you mean the .pipe()
> from the new streams, i.e.
> https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/_stream_readable.js#L296?
>
> On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:42:46 AM UTC-5, Raynos wrote:
>
>> Look at the implementation of pipe. Rewrite it so that it reads from
>> multiple inputs.
>>
>> The key points here is calling read with a fixed n and then calling write
>> on the output with a list of buffers.
>>
>> If any readable stream returns less then n keep the chunks around until
>> that stream is readable then alter your read(n) calls to get up to your n
>> again and then call write.
>>
>> Pipe's default logic is to end the writable when the first readable ends.
>> You may want to change that.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to synchronize multiple read Streams so that I can process
>>> equivalent bytes from them. For example, if there are multiple input
>>> streams created with fs.createReadStream(), I need to process bytes from
>>> the same position in all the files into  a new value that is written to an
>>> output write Stream. I'm trying not to use Buffers, because I want to
>>> handle a potentially large amount of data. I could use fs.read() for the
>>> case of input files and just read from the same position in each file, but
>>> I want this to be general and operate on generic streams that are not
>>> necessarily formed from a file.
>>>
>>> Is this possible? Are there any solutions out there that have the same
>>> or similar functionality?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>
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