Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

lib: update outdated comment #8968

Closed
wants to merge 1 commit into from
+2 −2
Closed

lib: update outdated comment #8968

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions lib/child_process.js
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ exports.fork = function(modulePath /*, args, options*/) {
args = execArgv.concat([modulePath], args);

if (!Array.isArray(options.stdio)) {
// Leave stdin open for the IPC channel. stdout and stderr should be the
// same as the parent's if silent isn't set.
// Use a separate fd=4 for IPC channel. Inherit stdin, stdout and stderr
Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

I think the correct fd index for the IPC channel here should be fd=3, not fd=4.

Quoting the docs:
The fds 0, 1, and 2 correspond to stdin, stdout, and stderr, respectively.

Copy link
Contributor

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Please leave the "the" before "IPC channel". Also, please add a comma after "stdout."

// from the parent if silent isn't set.
options.stdio = options.silent ? ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe', 'ipc'] :
[0, 1, 2, 'ipc'];
} else if (options.stdio.indexOf('ipc') === -1) {
Expand Down