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doc: stdout/stderr can block when directed to file
Update the documentation for `process.stdout` and `process.stdout` to clarify that writes can block when stdio is redirected to a file. In all other cases, it's non-blocking. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3170 Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
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@ -282,7 +282,9 @@ For example, a `console.log` equivalent could look like this:
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`process.stderr` and `process.stdout` are unlike other streams in Node.js in
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that they cannot be closed (`end()` will throw), they never emit the `finish`
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event and that writes are always blocking.
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event and that writes can block when output is redirected to a file (although
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disks are fast and operating systems normally employ write-back caching so it
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should be a very rare occurrence indeed.)
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To check if Node.js is being run in a TTY context, read the `isTTY` property
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on `process.stderr`, `process.stdout`, or `process.stdin`:
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@ -305,14 +307,9 @@ A writable stream to stderr (on fd `2`).
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`process.stderr` and `process.stdout` are unlike other streams in Node.js in
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that they cannot be closed (`end()` will throw), they never emit the `finish`
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event and that writes are usually blocking.
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- They are blocking in the case that they refer to regular files or TTY file
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descriptors.
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- In the case they refer to pipes:
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- They are blocking in Linux/Unix.
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- They are non-blocking like other streams in Windows.
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event and that writes can block when output is redirected to a file (although
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disks are fast and operating systems normally employ write-back caching so it
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should be a very rare occurrence indeed.)
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## process.stdin
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