[nodejs] Re: Writing to stdout stream is always blocking in linux/unix, even when it refers to pipes.

The documentation has been updated to tell the non-blocking behaviour in windows but blocking in linux. http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.26/docs/api/process.html#process_process_stdout On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 16:47:41 UTC+1, Pedro Ballesteros wrote: Hi, We have found that the writing

[nodejs] Re: Writing to stdout stream is always blocking in linux/unix, even when it refers to pipes.

The documentation has been updated (v0.10.26) to tell the non-blocking behaviour in windows and blocking in linux. It is important because this can affect your application when your logging system is based on stdout or console.log.

[nodejs] Writing to stdout stream is always blocking in linux/unix, even when it refers to pipes.

, it is always zero length. You can run the same tests in Windows to check that the buffer grows without control, because the process.stdout.write is never blocked and the data is queued to the buffer array. Best Regards, Pedro Ballesteros -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting