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-rw-r--r--man/systemd.journal-fields.xml4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
index 0ef844b821..b82c1300ca 100644
--- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
@@ -156,7 +156,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>The process, user, and group ID of the process the
journal entry originates from formatted as a decimal
- string.</para>
+ string. Note that entries obtained via <literal>stdout</literal> or
+ <literal>stderr</literal> of forked processes will contain credentials valid for a parent
+ process (that initiated the connection to <command>systemd-journald</command>).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>