+/*
+ * Create a tracing session that will exclusively be used for snapshot meaning
+ * the session will be in no output mode and every channel enabled for that
+ * session will be set in overwrite mode and in mmap output since splice is not
+ * supported.
+ *
+ * If an url is given, it will be used to create a default snapshot output
+ * using it as a destination. If NULL, no output will be defined and an
+ * add-output call will be needed.
+ *
+ * Name can't be NULL.
+ */
+extern int lttng_create_session_snapshot(const char *name,
+ const char *snapshot_url);
+
+/*
+ * Create a session exclusively used for live reading.
+ *
+ * In this mode, the switch-timer parameter is forced for each UST channel, a
+ * live-switch-timer is enabled for kernel channels, manually setting
+ * switch-timer is forbidden. Synchronization beacons are sent to the relayd,
+ * indexes are sent and metadata is checked for each packet.
+ *
+ * Returns LTTNG_OK on success or a negative error code.
+ */
+extern int lttng_create_session_live(const char *name, const char *url,
+ unsigned int timer_interval);
+