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<refentry id="sd_journal_stream_fd">
<para>It is recommended that applications log UTF-8 messages only
with this API, but this is not enforced.</para>
+
+ <para>Each invocation of <function>sd_journal_stream_fd()</function> allocates a new log stream file descriptor,
+ that is not shared with prior or later invocations. The file descriptor is write-only (its reading direction is
+ shut down), and <constant>O_NONBLOCK</constant> is turned off initially.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
success or a negative errno-style error code.</para>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Signal safety</title>
+
+ <para><function>sd_journal_stream_fd()</function> is "async signal safe" in the meaning of <citerefentry
+ project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>signal-safety</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>Function <function>sd_journal_stream_fd()</function> is thread-safe and may be be called
- from multiple threads. All calls will return the same file descriptor, although temporarily
- multiple file descriptors may be open.</para>
+ <para>Function <function>sd_journal_stream_fd()</function> is thread-safe and may be called
+ from multiple threads.</para>
<para>The <function>sd_journal_stream_fd()</function> interface is
available as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to