doc: note message event listeners ref IPC channels

The IPC channel is referenced with the message event too. PR-URL: #11494 Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
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@@ -536,9 +536,9 @@ spawn('prg', [], { stdio: ['pipe', null, null, null, 'pipe'] });
 *It is worth noting that when an IPC channel is established between the
 parent and child processes, and the child is a Node.js process, the child
 is launched with the IPC channel unreferenced (using `unref()`) until the
-child registers an event handler for the `process.on('disconnected')` event.
-This allows the child to exit normally without the process being held open
-by the open IPC channel.*
+child registers an event handler for the `process.on('disconnect')` event
+or the `process.on('message')` event.This allows the child to exit normally
+without the process being held open by the open IPC channel.*
 
 See also: [`child_process.exec()`][] and [`child_process.fork()`][]