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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2008-04-02 04:43:25 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2008-04-02 04:43:25 +0200
commitc7969cdbcb1f6d39177f6cc2e28597fabe186594 (patch)
tree911ae0237a456f87829aeb689f7e0be8a7b57fb4 /udev.xml
parentc3b145a381090f18c4c5f4149e19183343880ec2 (diff)
also accept real socket files for RUN+="socket:<path>"
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/udev.xml b/udev.xml
index 71832a2fe5..e432965317 100644
--- a/udev.xml
+++ b/udev.xml
@@ -333,6 +333,12 @@
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>
+ <para>If the specifiefd string starts with
+ <option>socket:<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>, all current event
+ values will be passed to the specified socket, as a message in the same
+ format the kernel sends an uevent. If the first character of the specified path
+ is an @ character, an abstract namespace socket is used, instead of an existing
+ socket file.</para>
</listitem>
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@@ -600,7 +606,7 @@
<refsect1><title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>Written by Greg Kroah-Hartman <email>greg@kroah.com</email> and
Kay Sievers <email>kay.sievers@vrfy.org</email>. With much help from
- Dan Stekloff <email>dsteklof@us.ibm.com</email> and many others.</para>
+ Dan Stekloff and many others.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>