Look at the sauce for fs.exists. I think you'll find it enlightening.
(tl;dr: use fs.stat instead.)
--Josh
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Alexey Petrushin
<alexey.petrus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wondering why `fs.exists` doesn't comply to async methods pattern and
> doesn't return error as a first argument?
>
> It uses
>
> fs.exists('/etc/passwd', function (exists) {
> util.debug(exists ? "it's there" : "no passwd!");
> });
>
>
> Instead of
>
> fs.exists('/etc/passwd', function (err, exists) {
> util.debug(exists ? "it's there" : "no passwd!");
> });
>
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