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added more hints what to consider when loading several plugins

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now the documentation also explains via command line example how to load several plugins
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Rene Pickhardt 2018-12-06 18:46:54 +01:00 • committed by Christian Decker
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## A day in the life of a plugin
During startup of `lightningd` you can use the `--plugin=` option to
register one or more plugins that should be started. `lightningd` will
write JSON-RPC requests to the plugin's `stdin` and will read replies
from its `stdout`. To initialize the plugin two RPC methods are
required:
register one or more plugins that should be started. In case you wish
to start several plugins you have to use the `--plugin=` argument
once for each plugin. An example call might look like:
```
lightningd --plugin=/path/to/plugin1 --plugin=path/to/plugin2
```
`lightningd` will write JSON-RPC requests to the plugin's `stdin` and
will read replies from its `stdout`. To initialize the plugin two RPC
methods are required:
- `getmanifest` asks the plugin for command line options and JSON-RPC
commands that should be passed through