lttng-crash(1): document the command's positional argument

Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx <eeppeliteloop@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I919329f2e072b14ad94181e98e49cb8840991225
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>

diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-crash.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-crash.1.txt
index f67a881353a7cf80e278214d7579d33a7274c1d4..a8a2c9f4dfaaee1880c76617ea27f1a9f8bb3c37 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/lttng-crash.1.txt
+++ b/doc/man/lttng-crash.1.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ lttng-crash - Recover and view LTTng 2 trace buffers in the event of a crash
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-*lttng-crash* [option:--extract='PATH' | option:--viewer='VIEWER'] [option:-v | option:-vv | option:-vvv]
+*lttng-crash* [option:--extract='PATH' | option:--viewer='VIEWER'] [option:-v | option:-vv | option:-vvv] 'SHMDIR'
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -23,9 +23,23 @@ user applications, and user libraries.
 LTTng consists of Linux kernel modules (for Linux kernel tracing) and
 dynamically loaded libraries (for user application and library tracing).
 
-The _`lttng-crash`_ command-line tool is used to recover and view
+The `lttng-crash` command-line tool is used to recover and view
 LTTng trace buffers in the event of a system crash.
 
+`lttng-crash` reads files within the directory 'SHMDIR' and does one
+of:
+
+Without the option:--extract option::
+    Launches a trace reader (see the option:--viewer option) to view the
+    recovered traces.
+
+With the option:--extract option::
+    Extracts them as uncorrupted LTTng traces on the file system.
+
+'SHMDIR' is the directory specified as the argument of the
+nloption:--shm-path option of the man:lttng-create(1) command used to
+create the tracing session for which to recover the traces.
+
 
 OPTIONS
 -------