Commit ae111c2
doc: use consistent terminology in process doc
`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>1 parent 48943e9 commit ae111c2
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@@ -1588,10 +1588,10 @@ important ways: | |||
| 1588 | 1588 | 2. They cannot be closed ([`end()`][] will throw). | |
| 1589 | 1589 | 3. They will never emit the [`'finish'`][] event. | |
| 1590 | 1590 | 4. Writes may be synchronous depending on the what the stream is connected to | |
| 1591 | - and whether the system is Windows or Unix: | ||
| 1592 | - - Files: *synchronous* on Windows and Linux | ||
| 1593 | - - TTYs (Terminals): *asynchronous* on Windows, *synchronous* on Unix | ||
| 1594 | - - Pipes (and sockets): *synchronous* on Windows, *asynchronous* on Unix | ||
| 1591 | + and whether the system is Windows or POSIX: | ||
| 1592 | + - Files: *synchronous* on Windows and POSIX | ||
| 1593 | + - TTYs (Terminals): *asynchronous* on Windows, *synchronous* on POSIX | ||
| 1594 | + - Pipes (and sockets): *synchronous* on Windows, *asynchronous* on POSIX | ||
| 1595 | 1595 | ||
| 1596 | 1596 | These behaviors are partly for historical reasons, as changing them would | |
| 1597 | 1597 | create backwards incompatibility, but they are also expected by some users. | |
@@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@ cases: | |||
| 1769 | 1769 | or unavailable. | |
| 1770 | 1770 | * `>128` **Signal Exits** - If Node.js receives a fatal signal such as | |
| 1771 | 1771 | `SIGKILL` or `SIGHUP`, then its exit code will be `128` plus the | |
| 1772 | - value of the signal code. This is a standard Unix practice, since | ||
| 1772 | + value of the signal code. This is a standard POSIX practice, since | ||
| 1773 | 1773 | exit codes are defined to be 7-bit integers, and signal exits set | |
| 1774 | 1774 | the high-order bit, and then contain the value of the signal code. | |
| 1775 | 1775 | ||
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