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authorMatteo Collina <hello@matteocollina.com>2019-01-11 12:53:37 +0100
committerMatteo Collina <hello@matteocollina.com>2019-01-15 09:44:45 +0530
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doc: revert incorrect change on readable._read
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17979 introduced a change in the doc that was not correct about _read always being called asynchronously. This does not hold true when it is in flowing mode. See: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17979 Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/24919 PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25442 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <hello@hiroppy.me>
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diff --git a/doc/api/stream.md b/doc/api/stream.md
index 6518b45e8b..c35c799129 100644
--- a/doc/api/stream.md
+++ b/doc/api/stream.md
@@ -1858,10 +1858,6 @@ const myReadable = new Readable({
#### readable.\_read(size)
<!-- YAML
added: v0.9.4
-changes:
- - version: v10.0.0
- pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17979
- description: Call `_read()` only once per microtick.
-->
* `size` {number} Number of bytes to read asynchronously
@@ -1881,9 +1877,7 @@ when `_read()` is called again after it has stopped should it resume pushing
additional data onto the queue.
Once the `readable._read()` method has been called, it will not be called again
-until the [`readable.push()`][stream-push] method is called. `readable._read()`
-is guaranteed to be called only once within a synchronous execution, i.e. a
-microtick.
+until the [`readable.push()`][stream-push] method is called.
The `size` argument is advisory. For implementations where a "read" is a
single operation that returns data can use the `size` argument to determine how