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authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2012-04-14 21:53:26 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2012-04-14 21:53:26 +0200
commitb45f770f0049fbdf3f6c9db0ab11deeff4ccd86d (patch)
tree385f743dfeeb1736017f3dbfebde0a77ed47c6d9
parent4090d4ca12f687852e9434272e36909760a222d3 (diff)
udev: clarify man page regarding starting dameons
-rw-r--r--TODO13
-rw-r--r--man/udev.xml12
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 12ce158ece..48591e4de1 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -19,17 +19,20 @@ Features:
* cg_create_and_attach() should fail for non-available controllers
-* make gtk-doc optional (like kmod?)
+* udevd: SIGKILL all non-udevd processes in udev.service cgroup when entering idle
+ (the time to be able start services from udev rules is over on systemd systems)
-* udev: find a way to tell udev to not cancel firmware requests in initramfs
+* udev: remove /sys and /dev configurability
-* udev: scsi_id -> sg3_utils?
+* udev: find a way to tell udev to not cancel firmware requests when running in initramfs
-* udev: add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device
+* udev: scsi_id -> sg3_utils -> kill scsi_id
+
+* udev: add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
* udev: libudev.so.1
- - remove deprecated symbols
- use symbol versioning
+ - remove deprecated symbols
- return object with *_unref()
- kill: udev_monitor_from_socket()
- kill: udev_queue_get_failed_list_entry()
diff --git a/man/udev.xml b/man/udev.xml
index 101286699f..417fb11ebc 100644
--- a/man/udev.xml
+++ b/man/udev.xml
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@
successfully. The device properties are made available to the
executed program in the environment. The program's stdout
is available in the RESULT key.</para>
+ <para>This can only be used for very short-running foreground tasks. For details
+ see <option>RUN</option>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -401,10 +403,12 @@
/usr/lib/udev, otherwise the absolute path must be specified. The program
name and following arguments are separated by spaces. Single quotes can
be used to specify arguments with spaces.</para>
- <para>This can only be used for very short running tasks. Running an
+ <para>This can only be used for very short-running foreground tasks. Running an
event process for a long period of time may block all further events for
- this or a dependent device. Starting daemons or other long running processes
- is not appropriate for udev.</para>
+ this or a dependent device.</para>
+ <para>Starting daemons or other long running processes is not appropriate
+ for udev; the forked processes, detached or not, will be unconditionally
+ killed after the event handling has finished.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -470,6 +474,8 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
+ <para>This can only be used for very short-running foreground tasks. For details
+ see <option>RUN</option>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>