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| author | Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> | 2019-03-10 12:12:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> | 2019-03-11 09:57:02 +0000 |
| commit | 137d3d2734a6f6e891ebab68ec6da16c8a6b397c (patch) | |
| tree | b0b68572ffe14ca0567abc22daa198e1a96e9633 /doc/api/worker_threads.md | |
| parent | a52aedeae08b57daedae56fd818be09df5f32e86 (diff) | |
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doc: document diverging MessagePort.onmessage handling
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/26463
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26487
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
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diff --git a/doc/api/worker_threads.md b/doc/api/worker_threads.md index 8d4c703f48..5152cc8c4d 100644 --- a/doc/api/worker_threads.md +++ b/doc/api/worker_threads.md @@ -319,6 +319,9 @@ listeners are attached. This method exists for parity with the Web `MessagePort` API. In Node.js, it is only useful for ignoring messages when no event listener is present. +Node.js also diverges in its handling of `.onmessage`. Setting it will +automatically call `.start()`, but unsetting it will let messages queue up +until a new handler is set or the port is discarded. ### port.unref() <!-- YAML |