docs: document terminal-size inconsistency under -n#1355
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Add a note to the known limitations explaining that workers replace stdio with pipes, so code that queries the terminal width sees the default size. Fixes pytest-dev#1208
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Fixes #1208
Documents that pytest-xdist workers run with replaced stdio pipes, so code that queries the terminal width sees the default size, and suggests monkeypatching the expected width in tests.