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| author | Sam Roberts <sam@strongloop.com> | 2014-01-15 17:13:32 -0800 |
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| committer | Timothy J Fontaine <tjfontaine@gmail.com> | 2014-01-16 07:35:12 -0800 |
| commit | 198ed0bd0da9dee471bb8bfb7f6e97be506224ed (patch) | |
| tree | a3b95c2f8190b502a90e59628608efba8e7c909f | |
| parent | 549be1caa84b4746a3697943bf4b19acb6430cc2 (diff) | |
| download | node-198ed0bd0da9dee471bb8bfb7f6e97be506224ed.tar.gz | |
doc: describe child_process.fork() silent option
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/child_process.markdown | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/child_process.markdown b/doc/api/child_process.markdown index e15ac02ec..9c7125c62 100644 --- a/doc/api/child_process.markdown +++ b/doc/api/child_process.markdown @@ -564,8 +564,10 @@ leaner than `child_process.exec`. It has the same options. * `execPath` {String} Executable used to create the child process * `execArgv` {Array} List of string arguments passed to the executable (Default: `process.execArgv`) - * `silent` {Boolean} If true, prevent stdout and stderr in the spawned node - process from being associated with the parent's (default is false) + * `silent` {Boolean} If true, stdin, stdout, and stderr of the child will be + piped to the parent, otherwise they will be inherited from the parent, see + the "pipe" and "inherit" options for `spawn()`'s `stdio` for more details + (default is false) * Return: ChildProcess object This is a special case of the `spawn()` functionality for spawning Node |