On Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:42:33 PM UTC-4, Dave Clements wrote: > > For my use case this behaviour is preferred, but I'm wondering why its not > acting like the docs > say, or am I misunderstanding something? > > The docs do need to be updated to note this. The reason is that if the stream is ended and you've asked to read 1 or more bytes and there is something left in the buffer, it will return that number of bytes to be read[1]. If however the stream hasn't ended, then you will get null as you expect.
[1] https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/v0.10/lib/_stream_readable.js#L240-L246 -- -- 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.
