fs.appendFileSync(path) call closes file handle in node.js?

Question

There are two apis 1)fs.appendFileSync(path) which takes in path of the file and 2)fs.appendFileSync(fd) which takes in file descriptor, the second one doesnt close the file handle which makes sense cause its borrowed from outside of the function, but what about the the first call? Since a fd is made internal to function does it closes it? No docs mentioned about the first overloaded api? Also of the fd is open internally how do i acquire to close it?

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v16.x/api/fs.html#fsappendfilesyncpath-data-options

Answer 1

According to the lib/fs.js code, fs.appendFileSync() does close the file when it is complete.

Here are the links to Node.JS 16.x code from the Node project on GitHub - I tried to match source version with the version docs you were looking at.

function appendFileSync(path, data, options) { https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/b8a8c83dffea8422db003e9444d4526ebafbd36a/lib/fs.js#L2222

function writeFileSync(path, data, options) { https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/b8a8c83dffea8422db003e9444d4526ebafbd36a/lib/fs.js#L2159

Hope that helps.