From 2b76eb68aca6b2f8c181f5f6ffec165c16017180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:49:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man: mention that no daemons should be started by udev --- src/udev.xml | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/udev.xml b/src/udev.xml index 88e19f30d..4de434ee5 100644 --- a/src/udev.xml +++ b/src/udev.xml @@ -382,14 +382,15 @@ Add a program to the list of programs to be executed for a specific - device. This can only be used for very short running tasks. Running an - 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. + device. If no absolute path is given, the program is expected to live in /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 + 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. -- 2.30.2