A1) you need to assign a listener _before_ nextTick. A2) you only need to call destroy() if you've decided to end the stream early. streams must cleanup after they have emitted 'end', (or you have called end() and they are only a writable stream)
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Carlos <cmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Question 1 > > When I read things like "data will be lost if there is no listener when a > Readable Stream emits a 'data' event," it's pretty obvious that I need to > have a listener attached before the stream is capable of emitting events. > How can I guarantee this? Said another way, what is the earliest point in > one-and-only js thread and/or the event-loop when a stream can emit an > event? > > I am looking at this from two sides. On one side, I need to make sure I > don't miss any data events. On the other side, I don't want to accidentally > create blocking code by doing something which would delay the data events. > > Question 2 > > If I create a steam indirectly, such as with fs.create ReadStream(...) who > is responsible for releasing the file descriptor (or other resources)? > Should I call destory() on the stream or not? > > Thanks! > > -- > 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
