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| author | Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com> | 2016-04-12 11:10:49 -0700 |
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| committer | James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> | 2016-04-18 15:17:41 -0700 |
| commit | 5c14d695d2c1f924cf06af6ae896027569993a5c (patch) | |
| tree | 39299adeb7b80a0cc6612798354b19e2eaeb1f3f /doc | |
| parent | 58561cf6a8ce6ac907973c3813cb52134ec8d4c2 (diff) | |
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doc: native module reloading is not supported
Clarify in docs for require.cache that reloading native modules
isn't supported.
Related: #6160
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6168
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/globals.markdown | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/globals.markdown b/doc/api/globals.markdown index 1e2e0562bd..a43d28eccb 100644 --- a/doc/api/globals.markdown +++ b/doc/api/globals.markdown @@ -145,7 +145,9 @@ global but rather local to each module. * {Object} Modules are cached in this object when they are required. By deleting a key -value from this object, the next `require` will reload the module. +value from this object, the next `require` will reload the module. Note that +this does not apply to [native addons][], for which reloading will result in an +Error. ### require.extensions @@ -199,6 +201,7 @@ but rather than loading the module, just return the resolved filename. [buffer section]: buffer.html [module system documentation]: modules.html [Modules]: modules.html#modules_modules +[native addons]: addons.html [timers]: timers.html [`clearImmediate`]: timers.html#timers_clearimmediate_immediateobject [`clearInterval`]: timers.html#timers_clearinterval_intervalobject |