diff --git a/lib/internal/process/stdio.js b/lib/internal/process/stdio.js
index bf5f6df15f123c..46c2ba4e9ca35d 100644
--- a/lib/internal/process/stdio.js
+++ b/lib/internal/process/stdio.js
@@ -2,7 +2,26 @@
 
 exports.getMainThreadStdio = getMainThreadStdio;
 
-function dummyDestroy(err, cb) { cb(err); }
+function dummyDestroy(err, cb) {
+  // SyncWriteStream does not use the stream
+  // destroy mechanism for some legacy reason.
+  // TODO(mcollina): remove when
+  // https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26690 lands.
+  if (typeof cb === 'function') {
+    cb(err);
+  }
+
+  // We need to emit 'close' anyway so that the closing
+  // of the stream is observable. We just make sure we
+  // are not going to do it twice.
+  // The 'close' event is needed so that finished and
+  // pipeline work correctly.
+  if (!this._writableState.emitClose) {
+    process.nextTick(() => {
+      this.emit('close');
+    });
+  }
+}
 
 function getMainThreadStdio() {
   var stdin;
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-stdout-pipeline-destroy.js b/test/parallel/test-stdout-pipeline-destroy.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..291579cf69d3d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-stdout-pipeline-destroy.js
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const common = require('../common');
+const { Transform, Readable, pipeline } = require('stream');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+const reader = new Readable({
+  read(size) { this.push('foo'); }
+});
+
+let count = 0;
+
+const err = new Error('this-error-gets-hidden');
+
+const transform = new Transform({
+  transform(chunk, enc, cb) {
+    if (count++ >= 5)
+      this.emit('error', err);
+    else
+      cb(null, count.toString() + '\n');
+  }
+});
+
+pipeline(
+  reader,
+  transform,
+  process.stdout,
+  common.mustCall((e) => {
+    assert.strictEqual(e, err);
+  })
+);