doc: Clarified read method with specified size argument.

Made explicitely clear that when size bytes are not available, it will
return null, unless we've ended, in which case the data remaining in the
buffer will be returned.

Fixes #7273

Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25591
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Philippe Laferriere authored and James M Snell committed 2015-08-03 20:44:41 -07:00
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@@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ returns it. If there is no data available, then it will return
`null`.
If you pass in a `size` argument, then it will return that many
bytes. If `size` bytes are not available, then it will return `null`.
bytes. If `size` bytes are not available, then it will return `null`,
unless we've ended, in which case it will return the data remaining
in the buffer.
If you do not specify a `size` argument, then it will return all the
data in the internal buffer.