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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: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6666
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7361
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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sartrey 9 years ago
committed by cjihrig
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      doc/api/child_process.md

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@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ The `stdout` and `stderr` arguments passed to the callback will contain the
stdout and stderr output of the child process. By default, Node.js will decode
the output as UTF-8 and pass strings to the callback. The `encoding` option
can be used to specify the character encoding used to decode the stdout and
stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, `Buffer` objects will be passed to
the callback instead.
stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, or an unrecognized character
encoding, `Buffer` objects will be passed to the callback instead.
The `options` argument may be passed as the second argument to customize how
the process is spawned. The default options are:
@ -233,8 +233,8 @@ The `stdout` and `stderr` arguments passed to the callback will contain the
stdout and stderr output of the child process. By default, Node.js will decode
the output as UTF-8 and pass strings to the callback. The `encoding` option
can be used to specify the character encoding used to decode the stdout and
stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, `Buffer` objects will be passed to
the callback instead.
stderr output. If `encoding` is `'buffer'`, or an unrecognized character
encoding, `Buffer` objects will be passed to the callback instead.
### child_process.fork(modulePath[, args][, options])
<!-- YAML

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