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From 2f55aeadef3dcdf65c61f24a41178148c3544ac3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
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Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 00:09:43 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH] man: document the new _LINE_BREAK= type
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(cherry picked from commit a3d9aee14fa2f7df429dc401582877176206b7fd)
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Related: #2029426
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---
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 man/systemd.journal-fields.xml | 19 ++++++++++---------
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 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
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index 0c95c4cd95..ad2b94dbd5 100644
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--- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
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+++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
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@@ -326,15 +326,16 @@
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       <varlistentry>
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         <term><varname>_LINE_BREAK=</varname></term>
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         <listitem>
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-          <para>Only applies to <literal>_TRANSPORT=stdout</literal> records: indicates that the log message in the
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-          standard output/error stream was not terminated with a normal newline character (<literal>\n</literal>,
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-          i.e. ASCII 10). Specifically, when set this field is one of <option>nul</option> (in case the line was
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-          terminated by a NUL byte), <option>line-max</option> (in case the maximum log line length was reached, as
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-          configured with <varname>LineMax=</varname> in
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-          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>) or
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-          <option>eof</option> (if this was the last log record of a stream and the stream ended without a final
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-          newline character). Note that this record is not generated when a normal newline character was used for
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-          marking the log line end.</para>
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+          <para>Only applies to <literal>_TRANSPORT=stdout</literal> records: indicates that the log message
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+          in the standard output/error stream was not terminated with a normal newline character
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+          (<literal>\n</literal>, i.e. ASCII 10). Specifically, when set this field is one of
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+          <option>nul</option> (in case the line was terminated by a NUL byte), <option>line-max</option> (in
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+          case the maximum log line length was reached, as configured with <varname>LineMax=</varname> in
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+          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>),
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+          <option>eof</option> (if this was the last log record of a stream and the stream ended without a
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+          final newline character), or <option>pid-change</option> (if the process which generated the log
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+          output changed in the middle of a line). Note that this record is not generated when a normal
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+          newline character was used for marking the log line end.</para>
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         </listitem>
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       </varlistentry>
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     </variablelist>