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authorkay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2004-02-17 19:02:39 -0800
committerGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-04-26 21:32:28 -0700
commitad63031e49abc18a961c4b4302312744a487f417 (patch)
tree202e887430756bb377285758f2570d51b90dce6a
parent20f86361f48da48b08e1b73b04e22ea098f64e72 (diff)
[PATCH] udev - add %s{filename} to man page
Add the new %s{filename} to the udev man page. And add the automatic start of udevd to the udevd man page.
-rw-r--r--udev.87
-rw-r--r--udevd.812
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/udev.8 b/udev.8
index 9291f33242..603ca45cba 100644
--- a/udev.8
+++ b/udev.8
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ returned string.
(This does not work within the
.B PROGRAM
field for the obvious reason.)
+.br
+A single part of the string, separated by the space character
+my be selected by specifying the part number as a attribute:
+.BI %c{ part }
+.TP
+.BI %s{ filename }
+The content of a sysfs attribute.
.TP
.B %%
The '%' char itself.
diff --git a/udevd.8 b/udevd.8
index 401e9b2ade..59dc0206c2 100644
--- a/udevd.8
+++ b/udevd.8
@@ -20,16 +20,20 @@ For each event a
.BR udev (8)
instance is executed in the background. All further events for the same device
are delayed until the execution is finished. This way it will never run more
-than one instance for a single device.
+than one instance for a single device at the same time.
.br
.B udevd
receives the events from
.B udevsend
which is called by
-.BR hotplug (8)
-
+.BR hotplug (8).
+If
+.B udevd
+isn't already running,
+.B udevsend
+will start it.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR udev (8)
+.BR udev (8), hotplug (8)
.SH AUTHORS
.B udevd
was developed primarily by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, with much help