where this is a concern you should just use once. the request 3.0 branch is 
doing so, as are several other projects i've written, and it works quite well.

https://npmjs.org/package/once

-Mikeal

On Oct 1, 2013, at 10:51AM, Oleg Slobodskoi <[email protected]> wrote:

> The answer depends on the reason why the callback called multiple times, 
> possible are:
> - by design
> - when multiple parallel running functions callback
> 
> 
> The last one could happen f.e. one of them fails and calls back with an 
> error, the other one calls back without error despite of the errored other 
> one. In this case you can't ignore either the first one or the second one.
> 
> I had this situation often when dealing with event emitters and transforming 
> the results into single callback style.
> 
> The only correct way is to fix the function which is causing this error.
> 
> 
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> Am 01.10.2013 um 07:17 schrieb jeevan kk <[email protected]>:
> 
>> I am using different 3rd party modules in my project. I have seen, in some 
>> odd situations the 3rd party module which I am using is calling the callback 
>> multiple times. 
>> 
>> Is there any general approach which I can follow so avoid such situations. 
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