Hope that no process completes before fileInProgress is set to two! 
Race-Conditions...

Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 22:05:10 UTC+1 schrieb greelgorke:
>
> var filesInProgress = 0,
>      fancyCallback = 
>      allDone = function(){ // boom}
> files.forEach( function(filename){
>   filesInProgress++
>   exec('ls '+filename,function(err, stdout, stderr){
>         filesInProgress--;
>         //do something with it
>         if(filesInProgress === 0) allDone();
>      })
> })
>
> no timer needed.
>
> in fact only fs has sync versions of its functions and i think it's only 
> for loading files at startup, files like configuration.
>   
> Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 21:32:18 UTC+1 schrieb Sebi:
>>
>> Many functions in NodeJS have a Sync pendant to the non-blocking 
>> functions.
>> Why is there no blocking pendant in the child_process module?
>>
>> I've giving up as I tried to iterate over a directory and call for every 
>> file
>> child.exec....
>>
>> how should my app now, that every process completed his task?
>> I'm going to run in trouble, because to use a timer to check that seems 
>> to be not a powerful resolution.
>>
>> Think there should be a sync pendant in the core child module....
>>
>> Sometimes you're going to the "callback" hell...
>>
>

-- 
-- 
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

--- 
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 nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.


Reply via email to