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                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_is_socket_inet</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_is_socket_unix</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 are provided. In order to maximize flexibility it is
-                recommened to make these checks as loose as possible
+                recommended to make these checks as loose as possible
                 without allowing incorrect setups. i.e. often the
                 actual port number a socket is bound to matters little
                 for the service to work, hence it should not be
                 verified. On the other hand, whether a socket is a
                 datagram or stream socket matters a lot for the most
-                common program logics and should hence be
-                checked.</para>
+                common program logics and should be checked.</para>
 
                 <para>This function call will set the FD_CLOEXEC flag
                 for all passed file descriptors to avoid further
                 <para>On failure, this call returns a negative
                 errno-style error code. If
                 <varname>$LISTEN_FDS</varname>/<varname>$LISTEN_PID</varname>
-                was not set or not correctly set for this daemon and
-                hence no file descriptors received 0 is
+                was not set or was not correctly set for this daemon and
+                hence no file descriptors were received, 0 is
                 returned. Otherwise the number of file descriptors
-                passed is returned, the application may find them
+                passed is returned. The application may find them
                 starting with file descriptor SD_LISTEN_FDS_START,
                 i.e. file descriptor 3.</para>
         </refsect1>
                 become a NOP.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Environment</title>
+
+                <variablelist>
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>$LISTEN_PID</varname></term>
+                                <term><varname>$LISTEN_FDS</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Set by the init system
+                                for supervised processes that use
+                                socket-based activation. This
+                                environment variable specifies the
+                                data
+                                <function>sd_listen_fds()</function>
+                                parses. See above for
+                                details.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+                </variablelist>
+        </refsect1>
+
         <refsect1>
                 <title>See Also</title>
 
                 <para>
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_is_fifo</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_is_socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_is_socket_inet</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_is_socket_unix</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>