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doc: Clarified read method with specified size argument.
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Made explicitely clear that when size bytes are not available, it will
return null, unless we've ended, in which case the data remaining in the
buffer will be returned.

Fixes #7273

Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#25591
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plafer authored and jasnell committed Aug 4, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ returns it. If there is no data available, then it will return
`null`.

If you pass in a `size` argument, then it will return that many
bytes. If `size` bytes are not available, then it will return `null`.
bytes. If `size` bytes are not available, then it will return `null`,
unless we've ended, in which case it will return the data remaining
in the buffer.

If you do not specify a `size` argument, then it will return all the
data in the internal buffer.
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