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diff --git a/udevd.8 b/udevd.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..401e9b2ade --- /dev/null +++ b/udevd.8 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.TH UDEVD 8 "February 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual" +.SH NAME +udevd \- udev event serializer daemon +.br +udevsend \- sends the event to udevd +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.B udevd +allows the serialization of +.BR hotplug (8) +events. The events generated by the kernel may arrive in random order +in userspace, that makes it neccessary to reorder it. +.br +.B udevd +takes care of the kernel supplied sequence number and arranges the events for +execution in the correct order. Missing sequences are delaying the +execution of the following events until a timeout of a maximum of 5 seconds +is reached. +.br +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. +.br +.B udevd +receives the events from +.B udevsend +which is called by +.BR hotplug (8) + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR udev (8) +.SH AUTHORS +.B udevd +was developed primarily by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, with much help +from others. |