fs: export constants from fs/promises

PR-URL: #43177 Reviewed-By: LiviaMedeiros <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
nodejs · Jun 12, 2022 · 9b76453 · 9b76453
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diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -789,8 +789,7 @@ with an {Error} object. The following example checks if the file
 `/etc/passwd` can be read and written by the current process.
 
 ```mjs
-import { access } from 'node:fs/promises';
-import { constants } from 'node:fs';
+import { access, constants } from 'node:fs/promises';
 
 try {
   await access('/etc/passwd', constants.R_OK | constants.W_OK);
@@ -892,8 +891,7 @@ error occurs after the destination file has been opened for writing, an attempt
 will be made to remove the destination.
 
 ```mjs
-import { constants } from 'node:fs';
-import { copyFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { copyFile, constants } from 'node:fs/promises';
 
 try {
   await copyFile('source.txt', 'destination.txt');
@@ -1622,6 +1620,14 @@ try {
 Aborting an ongoing request does not abort individual operating
 system requests but rather the internal buffering `fs.writeFile` performs.
 
+### `fsPromises.constants`
+
+* {Object}
+
+Returns an object containing commonly used constants for file system
+operations. The object is the same as `fs.constants`. See [FS constants][]
+for more details.
+
 ## Callback API
 
 The callback APIs perform all operations asynchronously, without blocking the
@@ -6879,7 +6885,7 @@ operations.
 
 #### FS constants
 
-The following constants are exported by `fs.constants`.
+The following constants are exported by `fs.constants` and `fsPromises.constants`.
 
 Not every constant will be available on every operating system;
 this is especially important for Windows, where many of the POSIX specific
@@ -7584,6 +7590,7 @@ the file contents.
 
 [#25741]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/25741
 [Common System Errors]: errors.md#common-system-errors
+[FS constants]: #fs-constants
 [File access constants]: #file-access-constants
 [MDN-Date]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
 [MDN-Number]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#Number_type

diff --git a/lib/internal/fs/promises.js b/lib/internal/fs/promises.js
@@ -17,13 +17,15 @@ const {
   Uint8Array,
 } = primordials;
 
+const { fs: constants } = internalBinding('constants');
 const {
   F_OK,
   O_SYMLINK,
   O_WRONLY,
   S_IFMT,
   S_IFREG
-} = internalBinding('constants').fs;
+} = constants;
+
 const binding = internalBinding('fs');
 const { Buffer } = require('buffer');
 
@@ -899,6 +901,7 @@ module.exports = {
     appendFile,
     readFile,
     watch,
+    constants,
   },
 
   FileHandle,

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fs-promises-exists.js b/test/parallel/test-fs-promises-exists.js
@@ -2,5 +2,8 @@
 
 require('../common');
 const assert = require('assert');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const fsPromises = require('fs/promises');
 
-assert.strictEqual(require('fs/promises'), require('fs').promises);
+assert.strictEqual(fsPromises, fs.promises);
+assert.strictEqual(fsPromises.constants, fs.constants);