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+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
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+
+<refentry id="sd_journal_print">
+
+        <refentryinfo>
+                <title>sd_journal_print</title>
+                <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+                <authorgroup>
+                        <author>
+                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+                                <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+                                <surname>Poettering</surname>
+                                <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+                        </author>
+                </authorgroup>
+        </refentryinfo>
+
+        <refmeta>
+                <refentrytitle>sd_journal_print</refentrytitle>
+                <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+        </refmeta>
+
+        <refnamediv>
+                <refname>sd_journal_print</refname>
+                <refname>sd_journal_printv</refname>
+                <refname>sd_journal_send</refname>
+                <refname>sd_journal_sendv</refname>
+                <refpurpose>Submit log entries to the journal</refpurpose>
+        </refnamediv>
+
+        <refsynopsisdiv>
+                <funcsynopsis>
+                        <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-journal.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
+
+                        <funcprototype>
+                                <funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_print</function></funcdef>
+                                <paramdef>int <parameter>priority</parameter></paramdef>
+                                <paramdef>const char* <parameter>format</parameter></paramdef>
+                                <paramdef>...</paramdef>
+                        </funcprototype>
+
+                        <funcprototype>
+                                <funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_printv</function></funcdef>
+                                <paramdef>int <parameter>priority</parameter></paramdef>
+                                <paramdef>const char* <parameter>format</parameter></paramdef>
+                                <paramdef>va_list <parameter>ap</parameter></paramdef>
+                        </funcprototype>
+
+                        <funcprototype>
+                                <funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_send</function></funcdef>
+                                <paramdef>const char* <parameter>format</parameter></paramdef>
+                                <paramdef>...</paramdef>
+                        </funcprototype>
+
+                        <funcprototype>
+                                <funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_sendv</function></funcdef>
+                                <paramdef>const struct iovec *<parameter>iov</parameter></paramdef>
+                                <paramdef>int <parameter>n</parameter></paramdef>
+                        </funcprototype>
+
+                </funcsynopsis>
+        </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Description</title>
+
+                <para><function>sd_journal_print()</function> may be
+                used to submit simple, plain text log entries to the
+                system journal. The first argument is a priority
+                value. This is followed by a format string and its
+                parameters, similar to
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>printf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                or
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. The
+                priority value is one of
+                <literal>LOG_EMERG</literal>,
+                <literal>LOG_ALERT</literal>,
+                <literal>LOG_CRIT</literal>,
+                <literal>LOG_ERR</literal>,
+                <literal>LOG_WARNING</literal>,
+                <literal>LOG_NOTICE</literal>,
+                <literal>LOG_INFO</literal>,
+                <literal>LOG_DEBUG</literal>, as defined in
+                <filename>syslog.h</filename>, see
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                for details. It is recommended to use this call to
+                submit log messages in the application locale or system
+                locale and in UTF-8 format, but no such restrictions
+                are enforced.</para>
+
+                <para><function>sd_journal_printv()</function> is
+                similar to <function>sd_journal_print()</function> but
+                takes a variable argument list encapsulated in an
+                object of type <literal>va_list</literal> (see
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>stdarg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                for more information) instead of the format string. It
+                is otherwise equivalent in behaviour.</para>
+
+                <para><function>sd_journal_send()</function> may be
+                used to submit structured log entries to the system
+                journal. It takes a series of format strings, each
+                immediately followed by their associated parameters,
+                terminated by a NULL. The strings passed should be of
+                the format <literal>VARIABLE=value</literal>. The
+                variable name must be in uppercase and consist only
+                of characters, numbers and underscores, and may not
+                begin with an underscore. The value can be of any size
+                and format. It is highly recommended to submit
+                text strings formatted in the UTF-8 character encoding
+                only, and submit binary fields only when formatting in
+                UTf-8 strings is not sensible. A number of well known
+                fields are defined, see
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                for details, but additional application defined fields
+                may be used.</para>
+
+                <para><function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is
+                similar to <function>sd_journal_send()</function> but
+                takes an array of <literal>struct iovec</literal> (as
+                defined in <filename>uio.h</filename>, see
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>readv</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                for details) instead of the format string. Each
+                structure should reference one field of the entry to
+                submit. The second argument specifies the number of
+                structures in the
+                array. <function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is
+                particularly useful to submit binary objects to the
+                journal where that is necessary.</para>
+
+                <para>Note that <function>sd_journal_send()</function>
+                is a wapper around
+                <function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> to make it
+                easier to use when only text strings shall be
+                submitted. Also, the following two calls are
+                mostly equivalent:</para>
+
+                <programlisting>sd_journal_print(LOG_INFO, "Hello World, this is PID %lu!", (unsigned long) getpid());
+
+sd_journal_send("MESSAGE=Hello World, this is PID %lu!", (unsigned long) getpid(),
+                "PRIORITY=%i", LOG_INFO,
+                NULL);</programlisting>
+
+                <para>Note that these calls implicitly add fields for
+                the source file, function name and code line where
+                invoked. This is implemented with macros. If this is
+                not desired it can be turned off by defining
+                SD_JOURNAL_SUPPRESS_LOCATION before including
+                <filename>sd-journal.h</filename>.</para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Return Value</title>
+
+                <para>The four calls return 0 on success or a
+                negative errno-style error code.</para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Notes</title>
+
+                <para>The <function>sd_journal_print()</function>,
+                <function>sd_journal_printv()</function>,
+                <function>sd_journal_send()</function> and
+                <function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> interfaces
+                are available as shared library, which can be compiled
+                and linked to with the
+                <literal>libsystemd-journal</literal>
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                file.</para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>See Also</title>
+
+                <para>
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                </para>
+        </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>