From 3b3838d8021ce3501e972e55ad21edb5f817858b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Francis Brunetti <zenflow87@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 05:14:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify when child process 'spawn' event is *not*
 emitted

Making this clarification in response to a comment on GitHub:
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/35288#issuecomment-802811813

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37833
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
---
 doc/api/child_process.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/api/child_process.md b/doc/api/child_process.md
index 77467cc6573064..aace7566e49764 100644
--- a/doc/api/child_process.md
+++ b/doc/api/child_process.md
@@ -1162,6 +1162,8 @@ added: v15.1.0
 -->
 
 The `'spawn'` event is emitted once the child process has spawned successfully.
+If the child process does not spawn successfully, the `'spawn'` event is not
+emitted and the `'error'` event is emitted instead.
 
 If emitted, the `'spawn'` event comes before all other events and before any
 data is received via `stdout` or `stderr`.