# set-blocking

> set blocking stdio and stderr ensuring that terminal output does not truncate

Latest version **2.0.0** (published 2016-05-17) · ISC license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install set-blocking
pnpm add set-blocking
yarn add set-blocking
bun add set-blocking
```

## Health

**Score 23/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: has types package; no vulnerabilities; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.0.0 |
| Published | 2016-05-17 |
| First published | 2016-05-14 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | ISC |
| TypeScript types | separate (@types/set-blocking) |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 38 |
| Author | Ben Coe |
| Maintainers | bcoe |
| Keywords | flush, terminal, blocking, shim, stdio, stderr |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/set-blocking
- Repository: https://github.com/yargs/set-blocking
- Homepage: https://github.com/yargs/set-blocking#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/yargs/set-blocking/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/set-blocking

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## Recent versions

- 2.0.0 (latest) — 2016-05-17
- 1.0.0 — 2016-05-14

## README

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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 effect 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

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