unixsock plugin: us_handle_getval: Changed the function to use the global cache rathe...

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diff --git a/src/collectd.pod b/src/collectd.pod
index d5bd792f284877211977641069307e0db7a49b56..b55362a3d12296161a5347ce0826fdef8a5341fd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.pod
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ config-option.
 
 Don't fork to the background. I<collectd> will also B<not> close standard file
 descriptors, detach from the session nor write a pid file. This is mainly
-thought for 'supervisioning' init replacements such as I<runit>.
+thought for 'supervising' init replacements such as I<runit>.
 
 =item B<-h>
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ There are two big groups of plugins, B<input> and B<output> plugins:
 
 =item
 
-Input plugins are queried periodically. They somehow aquire the current value
+Input plugins are queried periodically. They somehow acquire the current value
 of whatever they where designed to work with and submit these values back to
 the daemon, i. e. they "dispatch" the values. As an example, the C<cpu plugin>
 reads the current cpu-counters of time spent in the various modes (user,
@@ -89,10 +89,15 @@ C<logfile plugin> and the C<syslog plugin>. With these plugins collectd can
 provide information about issues and significant situations to the user.
 Several loglevels let you suppress uninteresting messages.
 
+Starting with version C<4.3.0> collectd has support for B<monitoring>. This is
+done by checking thresholds defined by the user. If a value is out of range, a
+notification will be dispatched to "notification plugins". See
+L<collectd.conf(5)> for more detailed information about threshold checking.
+
 Please note that some plugins, that provide other means of communicating with
 the daemon, have manpages of their own to describe their functionality in more
 detail. In particular those are L<collectd-email(5)>, L<collectd-exec(5)>,
-L<collectd-perl(5)>, and L<collectd-unixsock(5)>
+L<collectd-perl(5)>, L<collectd-snmp(5)>, and L<collectd-unixsock(5)>
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
@@ -100,7 +105,9 @@ L<collectd.conf(5)>,
 L<collectd-email(5)>,
 L<collectd-exec(5)>,
 L<collectd-perl(5)>,
+L<collectd-snmp(5)>,
 L<collectd-unixsock(5)>,
+L<types.db(5)>,
 L<http://collectd.org/>
 
 =head1 AUTHOR