X-Git-Url: http://git.lttng.org./?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=contents%2Funderstanding-lttng%2Fplumbing%2Flttng-sessiond.md;h=4469902f89f7363b3bd6ec2cd8f4c23faabf9a43;hb=b7189a67bfba753671c21dbaad05361b3a702563;hp=6e298e47e6e178e5f426249e44b4063cd4100264;hpb=4d46e8c0be2957758addfa997ba7cece5a5aada6;p=lttng-docs.git diff --git a/contents/understanding-lttng/plumbing/lttng-sessiond.md b/contents/understanding-lttng/plumbing/lttng-sessiond.md index 6e298e4..4469902 100644 --- a/contents/understanding-lttng/plumbing/lttng-sessiond.md +++ b/contents/understanding-lttng/plumbing/lttng-sessiond.md @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ by its command name, `lttng-sessiond`. The session daemon is responsible for managing tracing sessions and what they logically contain (channel properties, enabled/disabled -events, etc.). By communicating locally with instrumented applications -(using LTTng-UST) and with the LTTng Linux kernel modules +events, and the rest). By communicating locally with instrumented +applications (using LTTng-UST) and with the LTTng Linux kernel modules (LTTng-modules), it oversees all tracing activities. One of the many things that `lttng-sessiond` does is to keep @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ and user space tracers, the session daemon can send channel information so that they are initialized, enable/disable specific probes based on enabled/disabled events by the user, send event filters information to LTTng tracers so that filtering actually happens at the tracer site, -start/stop tracing a specific application or the Linux kernel, etc. +start/stop tracing a specific application or the Linux kernel, and more. The session daemon is not useful without some user controlling it, because it's only a sophisticated control interchange and thus @@ -78,5 +78,5 @@ pkill lttng-sessiond The default `SIGTERM` signal terminates it cleanly. Several other options are available and described in -lttng-sessiond's manpage -or by running `lttng-sessiond --help`. +lttng-sessiond's +man page or by running `lttng-sessiond --help`.