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| author | Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> | 2012-04-14 21:53:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> | 2012-04-14 21:53:26 +0200 |
| commit | b45f770f0049fbdf3f6c9db0ab11deeff4ccd86d (patch) | |
| tree | 385f743dfeeb1736017f3dbfebde0a77ed47c6d9 | |
| parent | 4090d4ca12f687852e9434272e36909760a222d3 (diff) | |
udev: clarify man page regarding starting dameons
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/udev.xml | 12 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -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> |