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@@ -163,6 +163,13 @@ set in the old master process are inherited by the new master process.
 Unicorn only uses (and will overwrite) the UNICORN_FD environment
 variable internally when doing transparent upgrades.
 
+UNICORN_FD is a comma-delimited list of one or more file descriptors
+used to implement USR2 upgrades.  Init systems may bind listen sockets
+itself and spawn unicorn with UNICORN_FD set to the file descriptor
+numbers of the listen socket(s).  The unicorn CONFIG_FILE must still
+have the inherited listen socket parameters defined as in a normal
+startup, otherwise the socket will be closed.
+
 # SEE ALSO
 
 * unicorn_rails(1)