On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Andrew Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been trying to use and understand the (new) streams interface, but I > don't understand when node will or won't terminate my program. > > Here are the simplest two cases which are currently confusing me. Why might > these behave differently? Is it a bug? > > node -e 'process.stdin.pipe(process.stdout); > process.nextTick(function(){process.stdin.unpipe();});' > node -e 'process.stdin.pipe(process.stdout); > setTimeout(function(){process.stdin.unpipe();}, 0);' > > I know nextTick and setTimeout differ, but in this case I don't understand > why they aren't equivalent. > > The setTimeout one terminates immediately; the other waits for some input, > does NOT echo it, then terminates. > > I'm running a local build of v0.10.2 on a debian squeeze amd64 VM. > > Bonus example: > node -e 'process.stdin.pipe(process.stdout); > setTimeout(function(){process.stdin.unpipe();}, 10000);' > > This one echos its input until the timeout fires. Then it waits for > ADDITIONAL input which it does NOT echo; then it terminates. > > Thanks, > Andrew
The setTimeout(0) thing is a bug that's fixed in v0.10.2. I'm guessing you're running a -pre build that doesn't have the fix. -- -- 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.
