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-rw-r--r--include/android/sharedmem.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/android/sharedmem.h b/include/android/sharedmem.h
index 2aacf11ee4..6efa4f71cb 100644
--- a/include/android/sharedmem.h
+++ b/include/android/sharedmem.h
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ extern "C" {
* Use close() to release the shared memory region.
*
* Use {@link android.os.ParcelFileDescriptor} to pass the file descriptor to
- * another process.
+ * another process. File descriptors may also be sent to other processes over a Unix domain
+ * socket with sendmsg and SCM_RIGHTS. See sendmsg(3) and cmsg(3) man pages for more information.
*
* Available since API level 26.
*