On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Benjamin Pasero <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering whats the best way of reading some data from a file stream > (readable stream) and under a certain condition stop reading? Is it safe to > e.g. call destroy() from within the on('data') handler? Or do I even have to > cleanup the stream at all? > > Take this example in pseudo code: > > var stream = fs.createReadStream(someFile); > > stream.on('data', function(data) { > if (someCondition) { > stream.destroy(); > } > }); > > The reason I am asking is because sometimes I am seeing sporadic errors like > this one and I am trying to hunt it down: > > Error: EBADF, read > > This is triggered from a on('error') handler on the stream I am reading. > > Thanks, > Ben
It could be a race condition. If you have a test case (even one that only fails every 100th run), please file an issue and we'll look into it. -- -- 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.
