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| author | Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> | 2012-04-14 21:53:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> | 2012-04-14 21:53:26 +0200 |
| commit | b45f770f0049fbdf3f6c9db0ab11deeff4ccd86d (patch) | |
| tree | 385f743dfeeb1736017f3dbfebde0a77ed47c6d9 /man/udev.xml | |
| parent | 4090d4ca12f687852e9434272e36909760a222d3 (diff) | |
udev: clarify man page regarding starting dameons
Diffstat (limited to 'man/udev.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/udev.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/udev.xml b/man/udev.xml index 101286699..417fb11eb 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> |