# set-blocking

**Repository Path**: mirrors_addons/set-blocking

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: set-blocking
- **Description**: set blocking stdio and stderr ensuring that terminal output does not truncate
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: ISC
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-05-03
- **Last Updated**: 2025-12-27

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# set-blocking

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Set blocking `stdio` and `stderr` ensuring that terminal output does not truncate.

```js
const setBlocking = require('set-blocking')
setBlocking(true)
console.log(someLargeStringToOutput)
```

## Historical Context/Word of Warning

This was created as a shim to address the bug discussed in [node #6456](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6456). This bug crops up on
newer versions of Node.js (`0.12+`), truncating terminal output.

You should be mindful of the side-effects caused by using `set-blocking`:

* If your module sets blocking to `true`, it will affect other modules
  consuming your library. In [yargs](https://github.com/yargs/yargs/blob/master/yargs.js#L653) we only call
  `setBlocking(true)` once we already know we are about to call `process.exit(code)`.
* This patch will not apply to subprocesses spawned with `isTTY = true`, this is
  the [default `spawn()` behavior](https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_spawn_command_args_options).

## License

ISC