Improve the fs module, add new methods/functions (mkfifo, mknod)

[mStirner]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No. Improve the fs module, without the need to spawn child process for basic operations. (Like crate a named fifo pipe)

Add to the fs module methods:

• fs.mkfifo to create a fifo pipe
• fs.mknod for filesystem node

[aduh95]

A few questions:

• Could this operations be implemented by a userland module/package?
• it seems this are not POSIX operations, are they? If so, how would that work on non-Linux systems?
• Node.js uses libuv to send the fs operations to the OS, this feature request would probably need to be sent upstream. Are you willing to send a PR their way to implement these features?

[mStirner]

Im not sure if i understand you correctly, but there are methods/operations:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mkfifo.3.html, https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mknod.2.html

Can you clarify (give me a example) what are a "POSIX operation" is?

how would that work on non-Linux systems

Indeed, this would only work for Unix/Linux/*nix based OSs.
Not sure if Windows has this kind of stuff.

[aduh95]

Can you clarify (give me a example) what are a "POSIX operation" is?

POSIX is a family of standards that most OSes follow (GNU/Linux, Unix and Unix-like), the neat thing about POSIX is you can use the same implementation everywhere and expect it to work (well we'd still need to make a Windows-specific implementation I guess). If those operations are not defined by a POSIX standard, I'm not sure it's reasonable for us to make a cross-platform API given the number of platforms Node.js supports.
I'm not sure "POSIX operation" is the right terminology. An example of one would be https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mq_open.3.html, it has a section stating CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

[mStirner]

I was confused by the term "operation".
Looks like there is a "operation" for mkfifio: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mkfifo.3.html#CONFORMING_TO & mknod: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mknod.2.html#CONFORMING_TO

Windows has also "named pipes": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/named-pipes
Perhaps a work around is needed for "fifo" pipes: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47248242/5781499

In python (https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.mkfifo, see "Availability"), if you use the "os" module, its common that some methods are not exists if you switch to/from windows/linux.
Why not "ignore" windows, and only support *nix operating systems?

[aduh95]

We already have macOS specific fs operations for some reason (E.G.: https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fspromises_lchmod_path_mode), so yeah, it's worth considering integrating it without Windows support as a first step. Since those are indeed POSIX features (sorry I read the wrong man page at first), we might be able to implement it in a cross-platform way. Leaving Windows support aside, would you be interested on working on an implementation?

[mStirner]

Interested, of course. But i dont think im not the right person for this.
No clue where to start and i cant code in c/c++.

[jasnell]

Generally speaking we tend to rely on abstracted implementations of file system functions provided by the libuv dependency. For any new fs functions the discussion should start there (https://github.com/libuv/libuv)

[aduh95]

To help your feature request finding volunteers, I recommend create two separate issues on the libuv repo: one for mkfifo and one for mknod.

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