On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Adam Stallard <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like a way to detect when there is no outstanding I/O. An event > would suffice. A synchronous check would also be nice, but not as > important. > > The only way I have figured out how to do this is to spawn a child process > which calls node, and then listen for the exit event, but this is expensive. > > Domain and Domain.members are close to a solution, but it only shows the > status the explicitly added event emitters, and there is no event fired when > a domain member finishes, only if it errors. > > I have seen packages (vows) that override > events.EventEmitter.prototype.emit. That would work, but the problem is > that when more than one module does this they interfere with each other. I > think it's a bad choice, and it's already made certain modules incompatible > with each other. > > Any ideas?
There is currently no way to do that. The concept of a 'preExit' event, one that lets listeners revive the event loop, has been discussed in the past but that's all. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
