From b45f770f0049fbdf3f6c9db0ab11deeff4ccd86d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:53:26 +0200 Subject: udev: clarify man page regarding starting dameons --- man/udev.xml | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/udev.xml') 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. + This can only be used for very short-running foreground tasks. For details + see . @@ -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. - This can only be used for very short running tasks. Running an + 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. + this or a dependent device. + 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. @@ -470,6 +474,8 @@ + This can only be used for very short-running foreground tasks. For details + see . -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf