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Expand Up @@ -1897,6 +1897,11 @@ Any specified file descriptor has to support reading.
*Note*: If a file descriptor is specified as the `path`, it will not be closed
automatically.

*Note*: `fs.readFile()` reads the entire file in a single threadpool request.
To minimize threadpool task length variation, prefer the partitioned APIs
`fs.read()` and `fs.createReadStream()` when reading files as part of
fulfilling a client request.

## fs.readFileSync(path[, options])
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.8
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