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
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
- <para>The <function>sd_journal_open()</function> and
- <function>sd_journal_open_directory()</function> calls
+ <para>The <function>sd_journal_open()</function>,
+ <function>sd_journal_open_directory()</function>, and
+ <function>sd_journal_open_files()</function> calls
return 0 on success or a negative errno-style error
code. <function>sd_journal_close()</function> returns
nothing.</para>