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`process.md` uses `POSIX` in most places, but `Unix` (and in one case
`Linux`) in a handful of cases where `POSIX` is appropriate. Change
those instances to `POSIX`.

PR-URL: #15321
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
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2. They cannot be closed ([`end()`][] will throw).
3. They will never emit the [`'finish'`][] event.
4. Writes may be synchronous depending on the what the stream is connected to
and whether the system is Windows or Unix:
- Files: *synchronous* on Windows and Linux
- TTYs (Terminals): *asynchronous* on Windows, *synchronous* on Unix
- Pipes (and sockets): *synchronous* on Windows, *asynchronous* on Unix
and whether the system is Windows or POSIX:
- Files: *synchronous* on Windows and POSIX
- TTYs (Terminals): *asynchronous* on Windows, *synchronous* on POSIX
- Pipes (and sockets): *synchronous* on Windows, *asynchronous* on POSIX

These behaviors are partly for historical reasons, as changing them would
create backwards incompatibility, but they are also expected by some users.
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options were set, but the port number chosen was invalid or unavailable.
* `>128` **Signal Exits** - If Node.js receives a fatal signal such as
`SIGKILL` or `SIGHUP`, then its exit code will be `128` plus the
value of the signal code. This is a standard Unix practice, since
value of the signal code. This is a standard POSIX practice, since
exit codes are defined to be 7-bit integers, and signal exits set
the high-order bit, and then contain the value of the signal code.

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