Revert "fs: deprecate fs.read's string interface"
This reverts commit 1124de2d which landed in https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4525
This commit has broken both npm + node-gyp
How did it break npm?
Deprecating fs.read's string interface includes internal/util
Currently npm's dep tree includes an old version of graceful-fs
that is monkey patching fs. As such everything explodes when
trying to require internal/util
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5102 is waiting for review but has not landed. We should revert ASAP to fix master while we decide what to do.
/cc @nodejs/collaborators @rvagg @jasnell