Describe when deep cloning may be useful

open-telemetry · Jul 25, 2024 · c898c54 · c898c54
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 * [`TraceFlags`](./data-model.md#field-traceflags)
 
 The SDK MAY provide an operation that makes a deep clone of a `ReadWriteLogRecord`.
+The operation can be used to implement the [isolating processor](#isolating-processor)
+or by asynchronous processors (e.g. [Batching processor](#batching-processor))
+to avoid race conditions on the log record that is not required to be
+concurrent safe.
 
 ## LogRecord Limits