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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