Document tracing session rotation features

[lttng-tools.git] / doc / man / lttng-destroy.1.txt

diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-destroy.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-destroy.1.txt
index 4b3f4f00e213989aa74d51f4b15f14a1463d575d..1e7ecade209124078a0ed020222a3cb865602aa7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/lttng-destroy.1.txt
+++ b/doc/man/lttng-destroy.1.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ Destroying a tracing session does not destroy the recorded trace data,
 if any; it frees resources acquired by the session daemon and tracer
 side, making sure to flush all trace data.
 
+If at least one rotation occurred during the chosen tracing session's
+lifetime (see man:lttng-rotate(1) and man:lttng-enable-rotation(1)), and
+without the option:--no-wait option, all the tracing session's output
+directory's subdirectories are considered trace chunk archives once the
+command returns: it is safe to read them, modify them, move them, or
+remove them.
+
 
 include::common-cmd-options-head.txt[]