That's a great "oppertunity?" but it's not in line with the structure and goals of node.js.
Node has synchronous file operations. The reason it has sync file operations is that there are many cases where you actually **want** to stop the entire server until you get back data from the filesystem because you can't server **any** requests until it's come back. In this case, not only is a sync file operation required, it's actually more efficient than using an async operation (at least in node.js). Sockets and sub processes are only non-blocking in node. That is by design and that design decision was a choice. Doing it another way based on an opinion about what you want something to *look like* is not recommended and will eventually cause you a lot of pain. If you want things to look like that it would be best not do use node.js, because core and the entire ecosystem are built on doing things the others way. -Mikeal On Mar 14, 2013, at 1:53PM, Sebi <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, but I think there should be an "execSync" like they do it in almost > every other module. > My oppertunity is, that every developer should have the ability to choose if > he goes the async or syncronously way. > > Regards, > Seb > > Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 21:40:08 UTC+1 schrieb Scott González: > There are tons of modules to help with asynchronous code. > https://npmjs.org/package/async is pretty popular. If you end up in callback > hell, you're probably not designing your code properly. Take some time to > look at various modules and find one with a style that you like. > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Sebi <[email protected]> wrote: > Many functions in NodeJS have a Sync pendant to the non-blocking functions. > Why is there no blocking pendant in the child_process module? > > I've giving up as I tried to iterate over a directory and call for every file > child.exec.... > > how should my app now, that every process completed his task? > I'm going to run in trouble, because to use a timer to check that seems to be > not a powerful resolution. > > Think there should be a sync pendant in the core child module.... > > Sometimes you're going to the "callback" hell... > > -- > -- > 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. > > > > > -- > -- > 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. > > -- -- 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.
