Assigning to process.stdout has no effect

[mmalecki]

I'm not sure if it's a bug or a desired behavior. I've tried bisecting, but many revisions failed to build on my system, so git left me in the middle of nowhere.

Doing:

process.stdout = require('fs').createWriteStream('/dev/null');

has no effect on node v0.5.x (console.logs and process.stdout.writes are still being printed), but works on node v0.4.x.

If that's a real issue, I'll provide a test case.

[aikar]

I think its because your simply updating the property on process, your not ACTUALLY redirecting the FD 1 to /dev/null.

[mmalecki]

@aikar I know the way around it (there are few ways, actually). It's more about the fact that it worked in node v0.4 (I've edited issue description to clarify it)

[bnoordhuis]

Not really a bug. process.stdout is a getter now, you can override it (if you really want to) like this:

process.__defineGetter__('stdout', function() {
  return your_object;
});

[bnoordhuis]

But maybe worth documenting on https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.4-and-v0.6 !

[mmalecki]

@bnoordhuis Thanks for a clarification and sorry for the unneeded buzz. Sure, I'll document it.

[mmalecki]

Documented in e61f5c3, diff.

[bnoordhuis]

Cool, thanks.