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doc: clarify child_process stdout/stderr types
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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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sartrey authored and MylesBorins committed Jul 12, 2016
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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:
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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])

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