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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.
+ This can only be used for very short-running foreground tasks. For details
+ see .
@@ -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.
- This can only be used for very short running tasks. Running an
+ 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.
+ this or a dependent device.
+ 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.
@@ -470,6 +474,8 @@
+ This can only be used for very short-running foreground tasks. For details
+ see .