re-enable failed event tracking

[elogind.git] / udev / udev.xml

diff --git a/udev/udev.xml b/udev/udev.xml
index 6a92154cc143dbe6af405a8246f377b1d4763b9e..5aa6c38da4f844d2839661349b76a6e3a305dd8c 100644 (file)
--- a/udev/udev.xml
+++ b/udev/udev.xml
@@ -323,7 +323,8 @@
             <varlistentry>
               <term><option>ENV{<replaceable>key</replaceable>}</option></term>
               <listitem>
-                <para>Set a device property value.</para>
+                <para>Set a device property value. Property names with a leading '.'
+                are not stored in the database or exported to external tool or events.</para>
               </listitem>
             </varlistentry>
 
@@ -334,7 +335,10 @@
                 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.</para>
+                detached from the event process itself. If the option
+                <option>RUN{<replaceable>record_failed</replaceable>}</option> is specified,
+                and the executed program returns non-zero, the event will be marked as failed
+                for a possible later handling.</para>
                 <para>If the specified 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
@@ -457,6 +461,13 @@
                       with this option.</para>
                     </listitem>
                   </varlistentry>
+                  <varlistentry>
+                    <term><option>watch</option></term>
+                    <listitem>
+                      <para>Watch the device node with inotify, when closed after being opened for
+                     writing, a change uevent will be synthesised.</para>
+                    </listitem>
+                  </varlistentry>
                 </variablelist>
               </listitem>
             </varlistentry>
@@ -613,9 +624,6 @@
               </listitem>
             </varlistentry>
           </variablelist>
-          <para>The count of characters to be substituted may be limited by specifying
-          the format length value. For example, '%3s{file}' will only
-          insert the first three characters of the sysfs attribute</para>
         </refsect2>
       </refsect1>