On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:52 PM, PierreC <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> Is there a way to stop node from terminating when data is piped to it? I
> tried with -i with no luck.
>
> i.e. the following prints out the input data then stops, whereas I expect my
> readline to kick in:
>
> echo "" | node test.js
>
> ```
> // test.js
> var readline = require('readline'),
>     rl = readline.createInterface(process.stdin, process.stdout);
>
> rl.setPrompt('> ')
> rl.prompt()
>
> rl.on('line', function(line) {
> console.log('Line', line)
> }).on('close', function() {
>   console.log('Closed');
>   process.exit(0);
> });
>
> setTimeout(function() {
> ;['stdin','stdout','stderr'].forEach(function (stream) {
>   console.log('Timeout %s is destroyed: %s', stream,
> process[stream].destroyed)
> })
> }, 100)
> ```
>
> Thoughts?

That could only work if node reopens stdin as /dev/tty when the pipe
closes (which it doesn't). Are there scripting languages that let you
do that?

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