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repl: disable blocking completions by default by addaleax · Pull Request #36564 · nodejs/node

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It’s not okay for the REPL to be blocked for multiple seconds after
entering `require('` because the completion is performing blocking
fs operations on potentially huge directories. Turning the REPL
completion function asynchronous would be the right thing to do here,
but unfortunately the way the code is structured doesn’t play well
with that (in particular, it breaks the preview feature).
Therefore, disable these blocking calls by default.

Refs: nodejs#33282 (comment)

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Dec 18, 2020

@addaleax addaleax deleted the no-repl-blocking-completion branch

December 21, 2020 11:56

addaleax added a commit that referenced this pull request

Dec 21, 2020 
It’s not okay for the REPL to be blocked for multiple seconds after
entering `require('` because the completion is performing blocking
fs operations on potentially huge directories. Turning the REPL
completion function asynchronous would be the right thing to do here,
but unfortunately the way the code is structured doesn’t play well
with that (in particular, it breaks the preview feature).
Therefore, disable these blocking calls by default.

Refs: #33282 (comment)

PR-URL: #36564
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>

targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Dec 21, 2020 
It’s not okay for the REPL to be blocked for multiple seconds after
entering `require('` because the completion is performing blocking
fs operations on potentially huge directories. Turning the REPL
completion function asynchronous would be the right thing to do here,
but unfortunately the way the code is structured doesn’t play well
with that (in particular, it breaks the preview feature).
Therefore, disable these blocking calls by default.

Refs: #33282 (comment)

PR-URL: #36564
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>

danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Apr 29, 2021 
It’s not okay for the REPL to be blocked for multiple seconds after
entering `require('` because the completion is performing blocking
fs operations on potentially huge directories. Turning the REPL
completion function asynchronous would be the right thing to do here,
but unfortunately the way the code is structured doesn’t play well
with that (in particular, it breaks the preview feature).
Therefore, disable these blocking calls by default.

Refs: #33282 (comment)

PR-URL: #36564
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>