gh-117291: Explain usage of null bytes in Array(c_char).value (GH-117292)

diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 7b17df08f7dc712664505992c8c32a14bfaa9a87..2d13053915830b0ca3159873dfc7bcd94ecac416 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -1723,7 +1723,10 @@ inherited by child processes.
    Note that *lock* is a keyword only argument.
 
    Note that an array of :data:`ctypes.c_char` has *value* and *raw*
-   attributes which allow one to use it to store and retrieve strings.
+   attributes which can both be used to store and retrieve byte strings.
+   While *raw* allows interaction with a :class:`bytes` object the full size of
+   the array, reading *value* will terminate after a null byte, like most
+   programming languages handle strings.
 
 
 The :mod:`!multiprocessing.sharedctypes` module