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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-06-10 10:22:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-06-10 10:22:08 -0400 |
| commit | 7699b6eb9859ef7fecb1a0e2e156d65ed7d86b2a (patch) | |
| tree | e91fb6b70248516a2da089f739c231b6120dd7b9 | |
| parent | cbd671772c9ce053a7050ddd29de170eb9efac7e (diff) | |
man: add note that sd_journal_open_files is racy
| -rw-r--r-- | man/sd_journal_open.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_open.xml b/man/sd_journal_open.xml index 4ac94c4ce..182840e1d 100644 --- a/man/sd_journal_open.xml +++ b/man/sd_journal_open.xml @@ -125,7 +125,11 @@ of file paths to open. All files will be opened and interleaved automatically. This call also takes a flags argument, but it must be passed as 0 as no flags - are currently understood for this call.</para> + are currently understood for this call. Please note + that in case of a live journal, this function is only + useful for debugging, because individual journal files + can be rotated at any moment, and the opening of + specific files in inherently racy.</para> <para><function>sd_journal_close()</function> will close the journal context allocated with |