I have this piece of code (taken from this question):
var walk = function(dir, done) {
var results = [];
fs.readdir(dir, function(err, list) {
if (err)
return done(err);
var pending = list.length;
if (!pending)
return done(null, results);
list.forEach(function(file) {
file = path.resolve(dir, file);
fs.stat(file, function(err, stat) {
if (stat && stat.isDirectory()) {
walk(file, function(err, res) {
results = results.concat(res);
if (!--pending)
done(null, results);
});
} else {
results.push(file);
if (!--pending)
done(null, results);
}
});
});
});
};
I’m trying to follow it, and I think I understand everything except for near the end where it says !--pending
. In this context, what does that command do?
Edit: I appreciate all the further comments, but the question has been answered many times. Thanks anyway!