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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-08-22 02:49:17 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-08-22 02:49:17 +0200
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journald: augment journal entries from the kernel with data from udev
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immediately followed by their associated parameters,
terminated by 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
+ variable name must be in uppercase and consist only of
+ characters, numbers and underscores, and may not begin
+ with an underscore. (All assignments that do not
+ follow this syntax will be ignored.) 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>
+ may be used. A variable may be assigned more than one
+ value per entry.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is
similar to <function>sd_journal_send()</function> but