Sorry, yes I've meant *until*. Yes that's the second thing in CLI scripting. It's hard to write CLI Applications if you have only the async "option". I know it, because I've tried to write a readline-application and the sync apps looking cleaner for me. I think I'm not the only person, who must speak from the "callback hell".
Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 22:37:19 UTC+1 schrieb Dick Hardt: > > I think you meant to say "you can't serve anything *until* a sub-process > has completed its work" > > I've been using Node for CLI scripting, and a synchronous exec would be > nice to have just like the synchronous file IO is nice to have. > > -- Dick > > On Mar 14, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Sebi <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > But, what should you do if you can't serve anything after all > sub-processes have completed where work? > > Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 22:02:11 UTC+1 schrieb Mikeal Rogers: >> >> 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). >> > > -- > -- > 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] <javascript:> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:> > 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] <javascript:>. > 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.
