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doc: clarify child_process stdout/stderr types
Clarify how the encoding option interacts with the data type of child process stdout and stderr. Fixes: #6666 PR-URL: #7361 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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stdout and stderr output of the child process. By default, Node.js will decode
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the output as UTF-8 and pass strings to the callback. The `encoding` option
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can be used to specify the character encoding used to decode the stdout and
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stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, `Buffer` objects will be passed to
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the callback instead.
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stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, or an unrecognized character
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encoding, `Buffer` objects will be passed to the callback instead.
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The `options` argument may be passed as the second argument to customize how
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the process is spawned. The default options are:
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stdout and stderr output of the child process. By default, Node.js will decode
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the output as UTF-8 and pass strings to the callback. The `encoding` option
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can be used to specify the character encoding used to decode the stdout and
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stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, `Buffer` objects will be passed to
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the callback instead.
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stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, or an unrecognized character
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encoding, `Buffer` objects will be passed to the callback instead.
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### child_process.fork(modulePath[, args][, options])
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