.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"
.sp
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
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.
+execution in the correct order. Missing sequences delay the execution of the
+following events until a timeout 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 at the same time.
+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