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James M Snell c6656db352 process: add 'warning' event and process.emitWarning()
In several places throughout the code we write directly to stderr
to report warnings (deprecation, possible eventemitter memory leak).
The current design of simply dumping the text to stderr is less
than ideal. This PR introduces a new "process warnings" mechanism
that emits 'warning' events on the global process object. These are
invoked with a `warning` argument whose value is an Error object.

By default, these warnings will be printed to stderr. This can be
suppressed using the `--no-warnings` and `--no-deprecation` command
line flags. For warnings, the 'warning' event will still be emitted
by the process, allowing applications to handle the warnings in custom
ways. The existing `--no-deprecation` flag will continue to supress
all deprecation output generated by the core lib.

The `--trace-warnings` command line flag will tell Node.js to print
the full stack trace of warnings as part of the default handling.

The existing `--no-deprecation`, `--throw-deprecation` and
`--trace-deprecation` flags continue to work as they currently do,
but the exact output of the warning message is modified to occur
on process.nextTick().

The stack trace for the warnings and deprecations preserve and point
to the correct call site.

A new `process.emitWarning()` API is provided to permit userland
to emit warnings and deprecations using the same consistent
mechanism.

Test cases and documentation are included.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4782
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Wyatt Preul <wpreul@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
2016-03-24 13:19:11 -07:00

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# Command Line Options
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Node.js comes with a wide variety of CLI options. These options expose built-in
debugging, multiple ways to execute scripts, and other helpful runtime options.
To view this documentation as a manual page in your terminal, run `man node`.
## Synopsis
`node [options] [v8 options] [script.js | -e "script"] [arguments]`
`node debug [script.js | -e "script" | <host>:<port>] …`
`node --v8-options`
Execute without arguments to start the [REPL][].
_For more info about `node debug`, please see the [debugger][] documentation._
## Options
### `-v`, `--version`
Print node's version.
### `-h`, `--help`
Print node command line options.
The output of this option is less detailed than this document.
### `-e`, `--eval "script"`
Evaluate the following argument as JavaScript.
### `-p`, `--print "script"`
Identical to `-e` but prints the result.
### `-c`, `--check`
Syntax check the script without executing.
### `-i`, `--interactive`
Opens the REPL even if stdin does not appear to be a terminal.
### `-r`, `--require module`
Preload the specified module at startup.
Follows `require()`'s module resolution
rules. `module` may be either a path to a file, or a node module name.
### `--no-deprecation`
Silence deprecation warnings.
### `--trace-deprecation`
Print stack traces for deprecations.
### `--throw-deprecation`
Throw errors for deprecations.
### `--no-warnings`
Silence all process warnings (including deprecations).
### `--trace-warnings`
Print stack traces for process warnings (including deprecations).
### `--trace-sync-io`
Prints a stack trace whenever synchronous I/O is detected after the first turn
of the event loop.
### `--zero-fill-buffers`
Automatically zero-fills all newly allocated [Buffer][] and [SlowBuffer][]
instances.
### `--track-heap-objects`
Track heap object allocations for heap snapshots.
### `--prof-process`
Process v8 profiler output generated using the v8 option `--prof`.
### `--v8-options`
Print v8 command line options.
### `--tls-cipher-list=list`
Specify an alternative default TLS cipher list. (Requires Node.js to be built
with crypto support. (Default))
### `--enable-fips`
Enable FIPS-compliant crypto at startup. (Requires Node.js to be built with
`./configure --openssl-fips`)
### `--force-fips`
Force FIPS-compliant crypto on startup. (Cannot be disabled from script code.)
(Same requirements as `--enable-fips`)
### `--icu-data-dir=file`
Specify ICU data load path. (overrides `NODE_ICU_DATA`)
## Environment Variables
### `NODE_DEBUG=module[,…]`
`','`-separated list of core modules that should print debug information.
### `NODE_PATH=path[:…]`
`':'`-separated list of directories prefixed to the module search path.
_Note: on Windows, this is a `';'`-separated list instead._
### `NODE_DISABLE_COLORS=1`
When set to `1` colors will not be used in the REPL.
### `NODE_ICU_DATA=file`
Data path for ICU (Intl object) data. Will extend linked-in data when compiled
with small-icu support.
### `NODE_REPL_HISTORY=file`
Path to the file used to store the persistent REPL history. The default path is
`~/.node_repl_history`, which is overridden by this variable. Setting the value
to an empty string (`""` or `" "`) disables persistent REPL history.
[Buffer]: buffer.html#buffer_buffer
[debugger]: debugger.html
[REPL]: repl.html
[SlowBuffer]: buffer.html#buffer_class_slowbuffer