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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
 
                 <para>When opening the journal only journal files
                 accessible to the calling user will be opened. If
-                journal files are not accessible to the caller this
+                journal files are not accessible to the caller, this
                 will be silently ignored.</para>
 
                 <para>See