From 854b2e67ea713b44f1d0f5c41a13e6b21e9446aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:01:46 +0000
Subject:  Doc clarification

---
 doc/s6-notifyoncheck.html | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/s6-notifyoncheck.html')

diff --git a/doc/s6-notifyoncheck.html b/doc/s6-notifyoncheck.html
index e154da0..38efdcb 100644
--- a/doc/s6-notifyoncheck.html
+++ b/doc/s6-notifyoncheck.html
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ command line that will execute into your daemon. </li>
 If s6-notifyoncheck runs after the run script's process has lost its
 root privileges, make sure that <tt>./data/check</tt> is accessible
 and runnable as that user. </li>
+ <li> Note that s6-notifyoncheck should be used to check if <em>the
+current service itself</em> is running. You cannot use it to
+poll for the readiness of another service. </li>
 </ul>
 
 </body>
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