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doc: note message event listeners ref IPC channels
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The IPC channel is referenced with the message event too.

PR-URL: #11494
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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DiegoRBaquero authored and jasnell committed Mar 7, 2017
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*It is worth noting that when an IPC channel is established between the
parent and child processes, and the child is a Node.js process, the child
is launched with the IPC channel unreferenced (using `unref()`) until the
child registers an event handler for the [`process.on('disconnect')`][] event.
This allows the child to exit normally without the process being held open
by the open IPC channel.*
child registers an event handler for the [`process.on('disconnect')`][] event
or the [`process.on('message')`][] event.This allows the child to exit normally
without the process being held open by the open IPC channel.*

See also: [`child_process.exec()`][] and [`child_process.fork()`][]

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