What you mean by "pause" is not what node meant as "pause" in the past. In the past, pause meant "send a signal to the input stream to stop sending me data", that did not insure that data that was enroute wasn't still going to be emitted.
>From a high level, your vision of "pause" makes a lot more sense, especially >to people that aren't hardcore network geeks like half of the people who work >on core :), and that's why there is no resistance whatsoever to fixing core to >be pause(maxSize) BUT this is a semantic change and is considered a *feature* >and will not be backported, nor would we accept the change a bugfix release >because there may be some hidden potential for bugs that assume the old >behavior. -Mikeal On Feb 7, 2012, at February 7, 20126:09 AM, Bert Belder wrote: > On Feb 7, 7:47 am, Mikeal Rogers <mikeal.rog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is not a bugfix, IMO, it's a feature. A feature we all want, a feature >> that fixes something newcomers trip on often, but previous released >> *intended* for the behavior to be the way it was and we have now changed it >> because this new way is better. >> >> It's a feature, it won't be backported. > > I would like to *guarantee* that pause() pauses immediately in node > 0.8. Most of the time it pauses immediately anyway, and it's a huge > PITA dealing with the remaining edge cases where a data event might > happen after a pause() call. If people really like the old situation > we could make the old behavior optional, e.g. > `stream.pause(allowData=false)`. > > -- > 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 nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- 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 nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
