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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2017-10-26 14:03:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2017-10-26 14:03:33 +0000 |
| commit | bc81629c44b0083efa18ef11b653890a3c283645 (patch) | |
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Deprecate s6-uevent-*, prepare for 2.4.0.2
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diff --git a/doc/s6-uevent-listener.html b/doc/s6-uevent-listener.html index 73bad1d..cd60639 100644 --- a/doc/s6-uevent-listener.html +++ b/doc/s6-uevent-listener.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> <title>s6-linux-utils: the s6-uevent-listener program</title> <meta name="Description" content="s6-linux-utils: the s6-uevent-listener program" /> - <meta name="Keywords" content="s6 linux administration root utilities devd mdev udev s6-uevent-listener uevent" /> + <meta name="Keywords" content="s6 linux administration root utilities devd mdev mdevd udev s6-uevent-listener uevent" /> <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//skarnet.org/default.css" /> --> </head> <body> @@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ its standard output, using a simple format. </p> +<p> +<strong>This program is deprecated</strong>, and will disappear in a +near future version of s6-linux-utils. It has been replaced with the +<a href="//skarnet.org/software/mdevd/mdevd-netlink.html">mdevd-netlink</a> +program, from the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/mdevd/">mdevd</a> +package. +</p> + <h2> Interface </h2> <pre> @@ -38,7 +46,7 @@ null characters, so a terminal will not display them correctly. To properly use s6-uevent-listener, it should be piped into a handler program such as <a href="s6-uevent-spawner.html">s6-uevent-spawner</a>. -<!-- or <a href="mdevd.html">mdevd</a>. --> </li> +or <a href="//skarnet.org/software/mdevd/mdevd.html">mdevd</a>. </li> <li> s6-uevent-listener is a long-lived program. When it receives a SIGTERM, it stops listening; it will exit as soon as it has flushed its event queue to stdout. </li> @@ -93,12 +101,12 @@ only program handling uevents, which means that <li> Examples of valid uses of s6-uevent-listener: <ul> <li> <tt>s6-uevent-listener | s6-uevent-spawner mdev</tt> </li> -<!-- <li> <tt>s6-uevent-listener | mdevd</tt> </li> --> + <li> <tt>s6-uevent-listener | mdevd</tt> </li> <li> Those examples can be made safer by using a supervision system: under <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a> or <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/">s6-rc</a>, write a service pipeline where <tt>s6-uevent-listener</tt> is a producer and -<tt>s6-uevent-spawner mdev</tt> <!-- or <tt>mdevd</tt> --> is a consumer. This +<tt>s6-uevent-spawner mdev</tt> or <tt>mdevd</tt> is a consumer. This setup has the advantage, among others, that you can restart the netlink listener and the event handler separately. </li> </ul> |