# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1231591798 0
# Node ID 7df4a8db7fec00f9b717a8ba680b6c6f3e55fe66
# Parent  ceb69a8a308a7c1b720612f8b21bc5288f7bfe22
(Decoding Output): Document that null bytes force no-conversion for reading
process output.

diff -r ceb69a8a308a -r 7df4a8db7fec doc/lispref/processes.texi
--- a/doc/lispref/processes.texi	Sat Jan 10 12:42:58 2009 +0000
+++ b/doc/lispref/processes.texi	Sat Jan 10 12:49:58 2009 +0000
@@ -1388,7 +1388,10 @@
 system to use (@pxref{Process Information}).  Otherwise, the coding
 system comes from @code{coding-system-for-read}, if that is
 non-@code{nil}; or else from the defaulting mechanism (@pxref{Default
-Coding Systems}).
+Coding Systems}).  If the text output by a process contains null
+bytes, Emacs by default uses @code{no-conversion} for it; see
+@ref{Lisp and Coding Systems, inhibit-null-byte-detection}, for how to
+control this behavior.
 
   @strong{Warning:} Coding systems such as @code{undecided} which
 determine the coding system from the data do not work entirely