X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=udevd.8;h=1de7a3cba2f7ae1a7085141c356f9566b9a6a128;hp=30adb94f2b358fee397cd428baab9c7b34274437;hb=1764266da0ce245d3a06c526d69f550b10913375;hpb=bef370d6ebd6707cc2ef183c2dc83f4a62d8111b diff --git a/udevd.8 b/udevd.8 index 30adb94f2..1de7a3cba 100644 --- a/udevd.8 +++ b/udevd.8 @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ .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 @@ -23,19 +21,18 @@ If unset, the event bypasses the queue and will be executed immediately. 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