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@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
                 <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>
 
                                 <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>
 
                 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 NULL. The strings passed should be of
+                terminated by NULL. 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
                 particularly useful to submit binary objects to the
                 journal where that is necessary.</para>
 
+                <para><function>sd_journal_perror()</function> is a
+                similar to
+                <citerefentry><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><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If
+                the message string is passed as NULL 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 <literal>LOG_ERR</literal> (3).</para>
+
                 <para>Note that <function>sd_journal_send()</function>
-                is a wapper around
+                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
@@ -171,7 +193,7 @@ sd_journal_send("MESSAGE=Hello World, this is PID %lu!", (unsigned long) getpid(
 
                 <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 and and <function>sd_journal_print()</function> may
-                mostly be used interchangably
+                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
@@ -190,8 +212,10 @@ sd_journal_send("MESSAGE=Hello World, this is PID %lu!", (unsigned long) getpid(
         <refsect1>
                 <title>Return Value</title>
 
-                <para>The four calls return 0 on success or a
-                negative errno-style error code.</para>
+                <para>The four calls return 0 on success or a negative
+                errno-style error code. The
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                variable itself is not altered.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
@@ -216,6 +240,8 @@ sd_journal_send("MESSAGE=Hello World, this is PID %lu!", (unsigned long) getpid(
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>perror</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>
         </refsect1>