Several changes:
* Soft-Deprecate Buffer() constructors
* Add `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.alloc()`, and `Buffer.allocUnsafe()`
* Add `--zero-fill-buffers` command line option
* Add byteOffset and length to `new Buffer(arrayBuffer)` constructor
* buffer.fill('') previously had no effect, now zero-fills
* Update the docs
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4682
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
I'm a fan of small changesets, but even I'm getting a little annoyed at
me for opening all these PRs weeding out variable redeclarations. So I'm
bundling a bunch of small changes here.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4992
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
common.js contains code that checks for variables leaking into the
global namespace. Load common.js in all tests that do not
intentionally leak variables.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3095
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Enable linting for the test directory. A number of changes was made so
all tests conform the current rules used by lib and src directories. The
only exception for tests is that unreachable (dead) code is allowed.
test-fs-non-number-arguments-throw had to be excluded from the changes
because of a weird issue on Windows CI.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/1721
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
The copyright and license notice is already in the LICENSE file. There
is no justifiable reason to also require that it be included in every
file, since the individual files are not individually distributed except
as part of the entire package.
