[PATCH] move distro specific config files into their own directories

[elogind.git] / udevd.8

diff --git a/udevd.8 b/udevd.8
index 59dc0206c242f1bd0661e864d9dcdbc275e0ce89..1a5940fef5c3d06179d23415a31ea29168f0bcd1 100644 (file)
--- a/udevd.8
+++ b/udevd.8
@@ -1,26 +1,29 @@
 .TH UDEVD 8 "February 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 .TH UDEVD 8 "February 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual"
 .SH NAME

-udevd \- udev event serializer daemon
-.br
-udevsend \- sends the event to udevd
+udevd, udevdsend \- udev event serializer daemon and udev event sender
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BI udevsend " hotplug-subsystem"

 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 .B udevd
 allows the serialization of
 .BR hotplug (8)
 events. The events generated by the kernel may arrive in random order
 .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.
+in userspace, that makes it neccessary to reorder them.

 .br
 .B udevd
 .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.
+takes care of the kernel supplied
+.B SEQNUM
+sequence number and arranges the events for execution in the correct order.
+Missing sequences delay the execution of the following events until a timeout
+is reached. Events without any sequence number are bypassing the queue and
+will be executed immediately.

 .br
 For each event a
 .BR udev (8)
 .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 at the same time.
+instance is executed in the background with the complete environment received
+by the hotplug event. All further events for the same device are delayed until
+the execution is finished. This way there will never be more than one instance
+running for a single device at the same time.

 .br
 .B udevd
 receives the events from
 .br
 .B udevd
 receives the events from


@@ -33,7 +36,9 @@ isn't already running,
 .B udevsend
 will start it.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .B udevsend
 will start it.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"

-.BR udev (8), hotplug (8)
+.BR udev (8),
+.BR udevinfo (8),
+.BR hotplug (8)

 .SH AUTHORS
 .B udevd
 was developed primarily by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, with much help
 .SH AUTHORS
 .B udevd
 was developed primarily by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, with much help