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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-06-26 19:55:48 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-07-16 12:09:48 -0400
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journal: return -ECHILD after a fork
A few asserts are replaced with 'return -EINVAL'. I think that assert should not be used to check argument in public functions. Fields in struct sd_journal are rearranged to make it less swiss-cheesy.
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@@ -131,6 +131,13 @@
can be rotated at any moment, and the opening of
specific files is inherently racy.</para>
+ <para><varname>sd_journal</varname> objects cannot be
+ used in the child after a fork. Functions which take a
+ journal object as an argument
+ (<function>sd_journal_next()</function> and others)
+ will return <constant>-ECHILD</constant> after a fork.
+ </para>
+
<para><function>sd_journal_close()</function> will
close the journal context allocated with
<function>sd_journal_open()</function> or