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child_process,cluster: allow using V8 serialization API #30162

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Expand Up @@ -1010,8 +1010,9 @@ The `'message'` event is triggered when a child process uses
The message goes through serialization and parsing. The resulting
message might not be the same as what is originally sent.

If the `advancedSerialization` option was used when spawning the child process,
the `message` argument can contain data that JSON is not able to represent.
If the `serialization` option was set to `advanced` used when spawning the
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child process, the `message` argument can contain data that JSON is not able
to represent.
See [Advanced Serialization][] for more details.

### subprocess.channel
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Child processes support a serialization mechanism for IPC that is based on the
[serialization API of the `v8` module][v8.serdes]. This is generally more
powerful and supports more built-in JS object types, such as `BigInt`, `Map`
and `Set`, `ArrayBuffer` and `TypedArray`, `Buffer`, `Error`, `RegExp` etc.
powerful and supports more built-in JavaScript object types, such as `BigInt`,
`Map` and `Set`, `ArrayBuffer` and `TypedArray`, `Buffer`, `Error`,
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`RegExp` etc.

However, this format is not a full superset of JSON, and e.g. properties set on
objects of such built-in types will not be passed on through the serialization
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