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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2012-01-11 21:49:25 +0100
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2012-01-11 21:49:25 +0100
commit2b76eb68aca6b2f8c181f5f6ffec165c16017180 (patch)
treea8f532fc59f28892dbca6cf3f70fd87fef955fef /src
parentbd59d82322503b796ed6e80425df4bd24b5059ee (diff)
man: mention that no daemons should be started by udev
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/udev.xml9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/udev.xml b/src/udev.xml
index 88e19f30d1..4de434ee51 100644
--- a/src/udev.xml
+++ b/src/udev.xml
@@ -382,14 +382,15 @@
<term><option>RUN</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Add a program to the list of programs to be executed for a specific
- device. This can only be used for very short running tasks. Running an
- event process for a long period of time may block all further events for
- this or a dependent device. Long running tasks need to be immediately
- detached from the event process itself.</para>
+ device.</para>
<para>If no absolute path is given, the program is expected to live in
/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
+ 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>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>