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author | Julien Fontanet <julien.fontanet@isonoe.net> | 2014-09-23 16:51:33 +0200 |
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committer | Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com> | 2014-10-01 11:45:23 -0700 |
commit | 95726b0fce0ae1ae60591f0a535515e8dabfd6df (patch) | |
tree | 99f864c03fc536c5682c0c9332937d9ded2c9064 | |
parent | 1781c8b85bbabc4c5c1e054bd5c50903cc0eb47b (diff) | |
download | node-95726b0fce0ae1ae60591f0a535515e8dabfd6df.tar.gz |
doc: note stdout and stderr special behaviors.
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r-- | doc/api/process.markdown | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/process.markdown b/doc/api/process.markdown index 68bb2a665..614f5cf07 100644 --- a/doc/api/process.markdown +++ b/doc/api/process.markdown @@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ Example: the definition of `console.log` }; `process.stderr` and `process.stdout` are unlike other streams in Node in -that writes to them are usually blocking. +that they cannot be closed (`end()` will throw), they never emit the `finish` +event and that writes are usually blocking. - They are blocking in the case that they refer to regular files or TTY file descriptors. @@ -209,7 +210,8 @@ See [the tty docs](tty.html#tty_tty) for more information. A writable stream to stderr. `process.stderr` and `process.stdout` are unlike other streams in Node in -that writes to them are usually blocking. +that they cannot be closed (`end()` will throw), they never emit the `finish` +event and that writes are usually blocking. - They are blocking in the case that they refer to regular files or TTY file descriptors. |