The problem with reading synchronously from /dev/stdin is that you can get a
spurious EOF when the input buffer is empty, even if more content is coming. Now
STDIN is read from a loop, and only stops polling when all input has been read.
This fixes #70 #85 and other errors related to parsing large files on STDIN.
}
function read_whole_file(filename) {
- if (filename == "-") {
- // XXX: this sucks. How does one read the whole STDIN
- // synchronously?
- filename = "/dev/stdin";
- }
try {
+ if (filename == "-") {
+ var chunks = [];
+ do {
+ var chunk = fs.readFileSync("/dev/stdin", "utf8");
+ chunks.push(chunk);
+ } while (chunk.length);
+ return chunks.join("");
+ }
return fs.readFileSync(filename, "utf8");
} catch(ex) {
sys.error("ERROR: can't read file: " + filename);