It seems like a good idea on the face of it, but lowWaterMarks are
actually not useful, and in practice should always be set to zero.
It would be worthwhile for writers if we actually did some kind of
writev() type of thing, but actually this just delays calling write()
and the overhead of doing a bunch of Buffer copies is not worth the
slight benefit of calling write() fewer times.
This is causing the CryptoStreams to get into an awful state when
there is a tight loop calling connection.write(chunk) waiting for
a false return.
Because CryptoStreams use read(0) to cycle data, this was causing
the encrypted side to pull way too much data in from the cleartext
side, since the read(0) would make it always call _read.
The unfortunate side effect, fixed in the next patch, is that
CryptoStreams don't automatically cycle when the Socket drains.
Otherwise sockets that are 'finish'ed won't be unpiped and `writing to
ended stream` error will arise.
This might sound unrealistic, but it happens in net.js. When
`socket.allowHalfOpen === false`, EOF will cause `.destroySoon()` call which
ends the writable side of net.Socket.
Those values, if passed to the _read() cb, will not signal an EOF. Only
null or undefined will mark the end of data, and trigger the end event.
However, great care must be taken if you are returning an empty string
or buffer! There must be some other thing somewhere that will trigger
a read() call, because there will never be a readable event fired later.
This is in preparation for CryptoStreams being ported to streams2, where
it is safe to simply stop reading, because the crypto cycle process will
cause it to read(0) again at some future date.
We detect for non-string and non-buffer values in onread and
turn the stream into an "objectMode" stream.
If we are in "objectMode" mode then howMuchToRead will
always return 1, state.length will always have 1 appended
to it when there is a new item and fromList always takes
the first value from the list.
This means that for object streams, the n in read(n) is
ignored and read() will always return a single value
Fixed a bug with unpipe where the pipe would break because
the flowing state was not reset to false.
Fixed a bug with sync cb(null, null) in _read which would
forget to end the readable stream
Problem 1: If stream.push() triggers a 'readable' event, and the user
calls `read(n)` with some n > the highWaterMark, then the push() will
return false (indicating that they should not push any more), but no
future 'readable' event is coming (because we're above the
highWaterMark).
Solution: return true from push() when needReadable is set.
Problem 2: A read(n) for n != 0, after the stream had encountered an
EOF, would not trigger the 'end' event if the EOF was pushed in
synchronously by the _read() function.
Solution: Check for ended in stream.read() and schedule an end event if
the length now equals 0.
Fix#4585
There was previously an assert() in there, but this part of the code is
so high-volume that the added cost made a measurable dent in http_simple.
Just checking inline is fine, though, and prevents a lot of potential
hazards.
Say that a stream's current read queue has 101 bytes in it, and the
underlying resource has ended (ie, reached EOF).
If you do something like this:
stream.read(100); // leave a byte behind
stream.read(0); // read(0) for some reason
then the read(0) will get 0 from the howMuchToRead function. Since the
stream was ended, this was incorrectly treating the 0 as a "there is no
more in the buffer", and emitting 'end' before that last byte was read.
Why have the read(0) in the first place? We do this in some cases to
trigger the last few bytes of a net socket (such as a child process's
stdio pipes). This was causing issues when piping a `git archive` job
to a file: the resulting tarball was incomplete, because it occasionally
was not getting the last chunk.
When switching into compatibility mode by setting `data` event listener,
`_read()` method will be called immediately. If method implementation
invokes callback in the same tick - all emitted `data` events will be
discarded, because `data` listener wasn't set yet.
Otherwise (especially with stdin) you sometimes end up in cases
where the high water mark is zero, and the current buffer is at 0,
and it doesn't need a readable event, so it never calls _read().
This fixes the CONNECT/Upgrade HTTP functionality, which was not getting
sliced properly, because readable wasn't emitted on this tick.
Conflicts:
test/simple/test-http-connect.js
