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