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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 /man
parent4090d4ca12f687852e9434272e36909760a222d3 (diff)
udev: clarify man page regarding starting dameons
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-rw-r--r--man/udev.xml12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
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>