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doc: refine process.kill() and exit explanations #2918

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Expand Up @@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ finished running the process will exit. Therefore you **must** only perform
checks on the module's state (like for unit tests). The callback takes one
argument, the code the process is exiting with.

This event may not be fired if the process terminates due to signals like
`SIGINT`, `SIGTERM`, `SIGKILL`, and `SIGHUP`.
This event is only emitted when node exits explicitly by process.exit() or
implicitly by the event loop draining.

Example of listening for `exit`:

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- `SIGKILL` cannot have a listener installed, it will unconditionally terminate
Node.js on all platforms.
- `SIGSTOP` cannot have a listener installed.
- Sending `SIGINT`, `SIGTERM`, and `SIGKILL` cause the unconditional exit of the
target process.

Note that Windows does not support sending Signals, but Node.js offers some
emulation with `process.kill()`, and `child_process.kill()`. Sending signal `0`
can be used to test for the existence of a process
can be used to test for the existence of a process. Sending `SIGINT`,
`SIGTERM`, and `SIGKILL` cause the unconditional termination of the target
process.

## process.stdout

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