of file paths to open. All files will be opened and
interleaved automatically. This call also takes a
flags argument, but it must be passed as 0 as no flags
- are currently understood for this call.</para>
+ are currently understood for this call. Please note
+ that in case of a live journal, this function is only
+ useful for debugging, because individual journal files
+ can be rotated at any moment, and the opening of
+ specific files in inherently racy.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_close()</function> will
close the journal context allocated with