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doc: improve pipe description 
I spent hours trying to make it work only to
learn that it's not supported in node anymore,
so I thought I'd save other people the time in the future.

https://groups.google.com/g/nodejs/c/SxNKLclbM5k?pli=1
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Expand Up @@ -806,7 +806,9 @@ pipes between the parent and child. The value is one of the following:
The parent end of the pipe is exposed to the parent as a property on the
`child_process` object as [`subprocess.stdio[fd]`][`subprocess.stdio`]. Pipes
created for fds 0, 1, and 2 are also available as [`subprocess.stdin`][],
[`subprocess.stdout`][] and [`subprocess.stderr`][], respectively.
[`subprocess.stdout`][] and [`subprocess.stderr`][], respectively. Note that
these are not actual UNIX pipes and therefore the child process can not use
them by their descriptor files, e.g. `/dev/fd/2` or `/dev/stdout`.
2. `'overlapped'`: Same as `'pipe'` except that the `FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED` flag
is set on the handle. This is necessary for overlapped I/O on the child
process's stdio handles. See the
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