Use domains

var copy = function (from, to, cb) {
    return fs.createReadStream(from)
        .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(to))
        .on("end", cb)
}

domain.run(function () {
    copy("a", "b", next)
})

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Alexey Petrushin <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Tried to copy files using streams and pipe and got funny results. Let's
> consider following code (highlighted version
> https://gist.github.com/3850106 ):
>
>     var copy = function(from, to, cb){
>       var fromStream = fs.createReadStream(from)
>       fromStream.on('error', cb)
>       var toStream = fs.createWriteStream(to)
>       toStream.on('error', cb)
>       fromStream.on('end', cb)
>     }
>
>     copy('non existing file a', 'non existing dir/file b', function(err){
>       console.log(err)
>     })
>
> There are errors in both streams (non existing source file and no parent
> directory for destination file) - so, both of them will emit
> 'error' event, and the callback will be called twice with both errors.
>
>     // Error will be reported twice:
>     //
>     // { [Error: ENOENT, open 'non existing file a'] errno: 34,
>     //    code: 'ENOENT', path: 'non existing file a' }
>     // { [Error: ENOENT, open 'non existing dir/file b'] errno: 34,
>     //    code: 'ENOENT', path: 'non existing dir/file b' }
>
> I found the solution by looking at the source of `util.pump` - it does it
> by wrapping callback into function that calls callback only once - for the
> fist error and ignoring others.
>
> But maybe it would be nice to have a callback for `createXxxStream` or
> something like 'ready' or 'success' events to know that it created
> successfully?
>
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