From: Anita Zhang <the.anitazha@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:50:10 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: man: document INVOCATION_ID and USER_INVOCATION_ID journal fields
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man: document INVOCATION_ID and USER_INVOCATION_ID journal fields
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diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
index 79a9a0671b4..9248726b9ec 100644
--- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
@@ -91,6 +91,16 @@
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><varname>INVOCATION_ID=</varname></term>
+        <term><varname>USER_INVOCATION_ID=</varname></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>A randomized, unique 128-bit ID identifying each runtime cycle of the unit. This is different from
+          <varname>_SYSTEMD_INVOCATION_ID</varname> in that it is only used for messages coming from systemd code
+          (e.g. logs from the system/user manager or from forked processes performing systemd-related setup).</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>SYSLOG_FACILITY=</varname></term>
         <term><varname>SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=</varname></term>