lttng-ust(3): document liblttng-ust-fd

[lttng-ust.git] / doc / man / lttng-ust.3.txt

diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-ust.3.txt b/doc/man/lttng-ust.3.txt
index 93cce8ef4dd0123aa07af655c8dfa6ad25796224..3159d6278e491a9eee06cbfa2d9b2e1186f60775 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/lttng-ust.3.txt
+++ b/doc/man/lttng-ust.3.txt
@@ -738,6 +738,12 @@ without a following man:exec(3) family system call. The library
 application with the `LD_PRELOAD` environment variable (see
 man:ld.so(8)).
 
+To use `liblttng-ust` with a daemon application which closes file
+descriptors that were not opened by it, preload the `liblttng-ust-fd.so`
+library before you start the application. Typical use cases include
+daemons closing all file descriptors after man:fork(2), and buggy
+applications doing ``double-closes''.
+
 
 Context information
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