libudev: clarify that udev_monitor_receive_device() is non-blocking

[elogind.git] / src / libudev / libudev-monitor.c

diff --git a/src/libudev/libudev-monitor.c b/src/libudev/libudev-monitor.c
index 32319aca7b195ee13bb1f0110e1f2148ce66ffa3..2ad9e1c3adbc1d134d36f31f8b557382dde49fab 100644 (file)
--- a/src/libudev/libudev-monitor.c
+++ b/src/libudev/libudev-monitor.c
@@ -494,6 +494,11 @@ tag:
  *
  * Only socket connections with uid=0 are accepted.
  *
+ * The monitor socket is by default set to NONBLOCK. A variant of poll() on
+ * the file descriptor returned by udev_monitor_get_fd() should to be used to
+ * wake up when new devices arrive, or alternatively the file descriptor
+ * switched into blocking mode.
+ *
  * The initial refcount is 1, and needs to be decremented to
  * release the resources of the udev device.
  *