also accept real socket files for RUN+="socket:<path>"

[elogind.git] / udev.xml

diff --git a/udev.xml b/udev.xml
index 71832a2fe5977115e60497874c1a502bea12aca1..e4329653170e1921482e9510cb684f9cd7755dd5 100644 (file)
--- a/udev.xml
+++ b/udev.xml
@@ -333,6 +333,12 @@
                 event process for a long period of time may block all further events for
                 this or a dependent device. Long running tasks need to be immediately
                 detached from the event process itself.</para>
+                <para>If the specifiefd string starts with
+                <option>socket:<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>, all current event
+                values will be passed to the specified socket, as a message in the same
+                format the kernel sends an uevent. If the first character of the specified path
+                is an @ character, an abstract namespace socket is used, instead of an existing
+                socket file.</para>
               </listitem>
             </varlistentry>
 
@@ -600,7 +606,7 @@
       <refsect1><title>AUTHOR</title>
         <para>Written by Greg Kroah-Hartman <email>greg@kroah.com</email> and
         Kay Sievers <email>kay.sievers@vrfy.org</email>. With much help from
-        Dan  Stekloff <email>dsteklof@us.ibm.com</email> and many others.</para>
+        Dan Stekloff and many others.</para>
       </refsect1>
 
       <refsect1>