From: Jérémie Galarneau Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 20:40:48 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Docs: document trigger condition and action ownership in 2.13+ X-Git-Tag: v2.13.0-rc1~176 X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c30250238cbd1c1976aca903cacc4abbb4f59ce;p=lttng-tools.git Docs: document trigger condition and action ownership in 2.13+ Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau Change-Id: I8a52f166565efc87c6073713ce0f6569ba6d3661 --- diff --git a/include/lttng/trigger/trigger.h b/include/lttng/trigger/trigger.h index de4e93d70..3b1cedda1 100644 --- a/include/lttng/trigger/trigger.h +++ b/include/lttng/trigger/trigger.h @@ -49,8 +49,11 @@ enum lttng_trigger_firing_policy { * in the emission of a notification to clients listening through * notification channels. * - * The caller retains the ownership of both the condition and action - * and both must be kept alive for the lifetime of the trigger object. + * Prior to 2.13, the caller had to retain the ownership of both the condition + * and action. Both objects had to be kept alive for the lifetime of the trigger + * object. This is no longer the case as the condition and action objects are + * internally reference counted. It is safe to destroy a condition and an action + * after using them to create a trigger. However, they should no longer be used. * * If the action is a notification action with capture descriptors, * the condition must be an event rule condition.