..:: Source code - fs-async3.js ::..

/*
Third way of writing fs-async.js
 */

//load modules
var fs = require('fs');


var callback = {
	kallme: function(err, content){
				console.log(content);
			}
}

//asynchronous file reading
fs.readFile('./testfiles/largefile800mb.txt', callback.kallme);

console.log('Do something else!');
 

..:: NodeJS Console - fs-async3.js ::..

$ node fs-async3.js
Do something else!
undefined
$ps -aux | grep node (list all node processes)
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sasa        1200  1.0  0.8 11723376 138760 ?     Ssl  Oct24 868:53 node /home/sasa/dex8/dex8-api/starter.js
sasa        1208  0.4  0.4 1305000 73500 ?       Ssl  Oct24 351:29 node /home/sasa/dex8/dex8-panel/server/index.js
sasa        1224  0.9  0.6 11830852 111580 ?     Ssl  Oct24 829:58 node /home/sasa/dex8/dex8-www/server/index.js
sasa        1236  0.6  0.6 11811596 99376 ?      Ssl  Oct24 553:36 node /home/sasa/mikosoft_hr/www-mikosoft-hr/server/index.js
sasa        1255  0.9  0.5 1330860 84200 ?       Ssl  Oct24 751:00 node /home/sasa/mikosoft-info/api-mikosoft-info/starter.js
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sasa        1289  0.4  0.4 1298260 66948 ?       Ssl  Oct24 351:12 node /home/sasa/dex8/dex8-kiosk/server/index.js
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sasa        1449  0.4  0.4 1233384 65576 ?       Ssl  Oct24 369:26 node /home/sasa/dex8/dex8-worker/starter.js
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sasa        1885  0.4  0.3 1100136 63948 ?       Ssl  Oct24 361:54 node /home/sasa/dex8/dex8-worker/starter.js
sasa        1886  2.5  1.0 11872100 175172 ?     Ssl  Oct24 2086:00 node /home/sasa/mikosoft-info/crypto-mikosoft-info/server/index.
sasa      400948  0.3  0.4 1102428 67436 ?       Ssl  03:02   1:53 node /home/sasa/dex8/dex8-worker/starter.js
www-data  435705  0.0  0.0   2608   588 ?        S    12:00   0:00 sh -c ps -aux | grep node
www-data  435707  0.0  0.0   3172   712 ?        R    12:00   0:00 grep node
sasa     2628167  1.0  0.8 1175656 132876 ?      Ssl  Nov04 684:12 node /home/sasa/voovuu/voovuu-api/starter.js
sasa     3168557  0.7  0.6 11823824 99200 ?      Ssl  Nov06 495:35 node /home/sasa/mikosoft-info/dodo-mikosoft-info/server/index.js
sasa     3169051  0.5  0.5 11798920 83316 ?      Ssl  Nov06 340:07 node /home/sasa/@mikosoft/dodo-examples/server/index.js