Note that this may not affect anything until powerpc support lands in
v8.

Related: https://github.com/srl295/node/issues/7
Related: srl295/node@ba8ab91
PR-URL: #8712
Reviewed-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>

this puts the type-checking assertions in require
into proper order.

PR-URL: #8333
Reviewed-by: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>

the arguments were swapped, so fs.symlink{Sync,} would
report that the wrong file EEXIST'd in error.

Fixes: #8651
Fixes: #4314
Fixes: #5381
PR-URL: #8657
Reviewed-by: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>

Not allowing string was a change from v0.10 behaviour, commented on in
#7991. Allow them again, but still check that argument is
numberish. Also, simplify the fragile and non-portable test code
introduced in 832ec1c that required fixups 2a41535, and
ef3c4ed.

PR-URL: #8531
Reviewed-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>

Fixes: #5471
PR-URL: #8732
Reviewed-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>

PR-URL: #4784
Reviewed-by: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>

PR-URL: #6054
Reviewed-by: Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me>
Reviewed-by: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>

Fixes broken link to Readable Stream documentation.

Fixes: #8464
PR-URL: #8756
Reviewed-by: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>

Add path.posix and path.win32 which have the specific methods like
resolve and normalize so you can specifically normalize or resolve
based on the target platform.

PR-URL: #5661
Reviewed-by: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>

The parse() function splits a path and returns an object
with the different elements. The format() function is the
reverse of this and adds an objects corresponding path
elements to make up a string. Fixes #6976.

Fixes: #6976
PR-URL: #8750
Reviewed-by: Julien Gilli <julien.gilli@joyent.com>

Adding --flaky-tests option, to allow regarding flaky tests failures
as non-fatal.

Currently only observed by the TapProgressIndicator, which will
add a # TODO directive to tests classified as flaky. According to the
TAP specification, the test harness is supposed to treat failures
that have a # TODO directive as non-fatal.