collectd-perl(5): Added note about multi-threading.

A new section "BUGS" has been added to the manpage with a short note about
Perl and multithreading.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Forster <octo@huhu.verplant.org>

diff --git a/src/collectd-perl.pod b/src/collectd-perl.pod
index 16a985b95594c8bc5cd29c93fef2cdb5bde9be1f..b6537470de793847fcbc6424c94f3ea31591b78e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd-perl.pod
+++ b/src/collectd-perl.pod
@@ -362,6 +362,13 @@ To register those functions with collectd:
 See the section "DATA TYPES" above for a complete documentation of the data
 types used by the read and write functions.
 
+=head1 BUGS
+
+This plugin does not yet work correctly if collectd uses multiple threads.
+Perl does not allow multiple threads to access a single interpreter at the
+same time. As a temporary workaround you should use a single read thread only
+(see collectd's B<ReadThread> configuration option).
+
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<collectd(1)>,