rules: Debian update

[elogind.git] / udev.7

diff --git a/udev.7 b/udev.7
index 0ea554923d55581afb3101076f1172de7af032e8..4bf625df6ddb2a5b2805381c8d8e22d47e6d0538 100644 (file)
--- a/udev.7
+++ b/udev.7
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\"     Title: udev
 .\"    Author: 
-.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.73.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.73.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
 .\"      Date: August 2005
 .\"    Manual: udev
 .\"    Source: udev
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ Match the devpath of the event device\.
 Match the name of the event device\.
 .RE
 .PP
+\fBNAME\fR
+.RS 4
+Match the name of the node or network interface\. It can be used once the NAME key has been set in one of the preceding rules\.
+.RE
+.PP
 \fBSUBSYSTEM\fR
 .RS 4
 Match the subsystem of the event device\.
@@ -213,6 +218,9 @@ Export a variable to the environment\. Depending on the type of operator, this k
 \fBRUN\fR
 .RS 4
 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\.
+.sp
+If the specifiefd string starts with
+\fBsocket:\fR\fB\fIpath\fR\fR, 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\.
 .RE
 .PP
 \fBLABEL\fR
@@ -254,9 +262,9 @@ and
 based on the executable bit of the file permissions\.
 .RE
 .PP
-\fBWAIT_FOR_SYSFS\fR
+\fBWAIT_FOR\fR
 .RS 4
-Wait for the specified sysfs file of the device to be created\. Can be used to fight against kernel sysfs timing issues\.
+Wait for a file to become available\.
 .RE
 .PP
 \fBOPTIONS\fR
@@ -275,12 +283,12 @@ Ignore this event completely\.
 .PP
 \fBignore_remove\fR
 .RS 4
-Ignore any later remove event for this device\. This may be useful as a workaround for broken device drivers\.
+Do not remove the device node when the device goes away\. This may be useful as a workaround for broken device drivers\.
 .RE
 .PP
 \fBlink_priority=\fR\fB\fIvalue\fR\fR
 .RS 4
-Specify the priority of the created symlinks\. Devices with higher priorities overwrite existing symlinks of other devices\.
+Specify the priority of the created symlinks\. Devices with higher priorities overwrite existing symlinks of other devices\. The default is 0\.
 .RE
 .PP
 \fBall_partitions\fR
@@ -288,6 +296,11 @@ Specify the priority of the created symlinks\. Devices with higher priorities ov
 Create the device nodes for all available partitions of a block device\. This may be useful for removable media devices where media changes are not detected\.
 .RE
 .PP
+\fBevent_timeout=\fR
+.RS 4
+Number of seconds an event will wait for operations to finish, before it will terminate itself\.
+.RE
+.PP
 \fBstring_escape=\fR\fB\fInone|replace\fR\fR
 .RS 4
 Usually control and other possibly unsafe characters are replaced in strings used for device naming\. The mode of replacement can be specified with this option\.
@@ -299,7 +312,8 @@ The
 \fBSYMLINK\fR,
 \fBPROGRAM\fR,
 \fBOWNER\fR,
-\fBGROUP\fR
+\fBGROUP\fR,
+\fBMODE\fR
 and
 \fBRUN\fR
 fields support simple printf\-like string substitutions\. The
@@ -343,7 +357,7 @@ and
 .PP
 \fB$attr{\fR\fB\fIfile\fR\fR\fB}\fR, \fB%s{\fR\fB\fIfile\fR\fR\fB}\fR
 .RS 4
-The value of a sysfs attribute found at the device, where all keys of the rule have matched\. If the matching device does not have such an attribute, all devices along the chain of parents are searched for a matching attribute\. If the attribute is a symlink, the last element of the symlink target is returned as the value\.
+The value of a sysfs attribute found at the device, where all keys of the rule have matched\. If the matching device does not have such an attribute, follow the chain of parent devices and use the value of the first attribute that matches\. If the attribute is a symlink, the last element of the symlink target is returned as the value\.
 .RE
 .PP
 \fB$env{\fR\fB\fIkey\fR\fR\fB}\fR, \fB%E{\fR\fB\fIkey\fR\fR\fB}\fR
@@ -375,7 +389,12 @@ The node name of the parent device\.
 .PP
 \fB$name\fR
 .RS 4
-The name of the device node\. The value is only set if an earlier rule assigned a value, or during a remove events\.
+The current name of the device node\. If not changed by a rule, it is the name of the kernel device\.
+.RE
+.PP
+\fB$links\fR
+.RS 4
+The current list of symlinks, separated by a space character\. The value is only set if an earlier rule assigned a value, or during a remove events\.
 .RE
 .PP
 \fB$root\fR, \fB%r\fR
@@ -409,11 +428,8 @@ The count of characters to be substituted may be limited by specifying the forma
 Written by Greg Kroah\-Hartman
 <greg@kroah\.com>
 and Kay Sievers
-<kay\.sievers@vrfy\.org>\. With much help from Dan Stekloff
-<dsteklof@us\.ibm\.com>
-and many others\.
+<kay\.sievers@vrfy\.org>\. With much help from Dan Stekloff and many others\.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .PP
 \fBudevd\fR(8),
-\fBudevinfo\fR(8),
-\fBudevmonitor\fR(8)
+\fBudevadm\fR(8)