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  <refentryinfo>
    <title>sd_journal_print</title>
    <productname>systemd</productname>
  </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>
    <refname>sd_journal_perror</refname>
    <refname>SD_JOURNAL_SUPPRESS_LOCATION</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>

      <funcprototype>
        <funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_perror</function></funcdef>
        <paramdef>const char *<parameter>message</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 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>printf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> or
    <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
    Note that currently the resulting message will be trucated to <constant>LINE_MAX - 8</constant>.
    The priority value is one of <constant>LOG_EMERG</constant>, <constant>LOG_ALERT</constant>,
    <constant>LOG_CRIT</constant>, <constant>LOG_ERR</constant>, <constant>LOG_WARNING</constant>,
    <constant>LOG_NOTICE</constant>, <constant>LOG_INFO</constant>, <constant>LOG_DEBUG</constant>, as defined in
    <filename>syslog.h</filename>, see <citerefentry
    project='man-pages'><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. Note that log messages written using this function are generally not
    expected to end in a new-line character. However, as all trailing whitespace (including spaces, new-lines,
    tabulators and carriage returns) are automatically stripped from the logged string, it is acceptable to specify one
    (or more). Empty lines (after trailing whitespace removal) are suppressed. On non-empty lines, leading whitespace
    (as well as inner whitespace) is left unmodified. </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
    <varname>va_list</varname> (see
    <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>stdarg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    for more information) instead of the format string. It is
    otherwise equivalent in behavior.</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
    <constant>NULL</constant>. 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. (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. A variable may be assigned more than one value per
    entry. If this function is used, trailing whitespace is automatically removed from each formatted field.</para>

    <para><function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is similar to <function>sd_journal_send()</function> but takes an
    array of <varname>struct iovec</varname> (as defined in <filename>uio.h</filename>, see <citerefentry
    project='man-pages'><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. Note that this function will not strip trailing
    whitespace of the passed fields, but passes the specified data along unmodified. This is different from both
    <function>sd_journal_print()</function> and <function>sd_journal_send()</function> described above, which are based
    on format strings, and do strip trailing whitespace.</para>

    <para><function>sd_journal_perror()</function> is a similar to
    <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>perror</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    and writes a message to the journal that consists of the passed
    string, suffixed with ": " and a human-readable representation of
    the current error code stored in
    <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
    If the message string is passed as <constant>NULL</constant> or
    empty string, only the error string representation will be
    written, prefixed with nothing. An additional journal field ERRNO=
    is included in the entry containing the numeric error code
    formatted as decimal string. The log priority used is
    <constant>LOG_ERR</constant> (3).</para>

    <para>Note that <function>sd_journal_send()</function> is a
    wrapper 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>

    <para><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    and <function>sd_journal_print()</function> may
    largely be used interchangeably
    functionality-wise. However, note that log messages
    logged via the former take a different path to the
    journal server than the later, and hence global
    chronological ordering between the two streams cannot
    be guaranteed. Using
    <function>sd_journal_print()</function> has the
    benefit of logging source code line, filenames, and
    functions as metadata along all entries, and
    guaranteeing chronological ordering with structured
    log entries that are generated via
    <function>sd_journal_send()</function>. Using
    <function>syslog()</function> has the benefit of being
    more portable.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Return Value</title>

    <para>The five calls return 0 on success or a negative errno-style error code. The <citerefentry
    project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> variable itself is
    not altered.</para>

    <para>If
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    is not running (the socket is not present), those functions do
    nothing, and also return 0.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Thread safety</title>

    <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="safe"/>

    <para><function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is "async signal safe" in the meaning of <citerefentry
    project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>signal-safety</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
    </para>

    <para><function>sd_journal_print</function>,
    <function>sd_journal_printv</function>,
    <function>sd_journal_send</function>, and
    <function>sd_journal_perror</function> are
    not async signal safe.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>

    <para>
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>perror</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>signal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>