[systemd-commits] man/udev.xml

Kay Sievers kay at kemper.freedesktop.org
Sun Jul 1 18:38:24 PDT 2012


 man/udev.xml |   23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit b1239c3fb3d19ff7273a8e5ead5c42f055d10b92
Author: Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 2 03:37:28 2012 +0200

    udev: man - clarify escaping and replacing for SYMLINK+=

diff --git a/man/udev.xml b/man/udev.xml
index b5c7cd4..0746618 100644
--- a/man/udev.xml
+++ b/man/udev.xml
@@ -335,15 +335,20 @@
           <term><option>SYMLINK</option></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>The name of a symlink targeting the node. Every matching rule adds
-            this value to the list of symlinks to be created. Multiple symlinks may be
-            specified by separating the names by the space character. In case multiple
-            devices claim the same name, the link always points to the device with
-            the highest link_priority. If the current device goes away, the links are
-            re-evaluated and the device with the next highest link_priority becomes the owner of
-            the link. If no link_priority is specified, the order of the devices (and
-            which one of them owns the link) is undefined. Also, symlink names must
-            never conflict with the kernel's default device node names, as that would
-            result in unpredictable behavior.
+            this value to the list of symlinks to be created.</para>
+            <para>The set of characters to name a symlink is limited. Allowed
+            characters are [0-9A-Za-z#+-.:=@_/], valid utf8 character sequences,
+            and "\x00" hex encoding. All other characters are replaced by
+            a '_' character.</para>
+            <para>Multiple symlinks may be specified by separating the names by the
+            space character. In case multiple devices claim the same name, the link
+            always points to the device with the highest link_priority. If the current
+            device goes away, the links are re-evaluated and the device with the
+            next highest link_priority becomes the owner of the link. If no
+            link_priority is specified, the order of the devices (and which one of
+            them owns the link) is undefined.</para>
+            <para>Symlink names must never conflict with the kernel's default device
+            node names, as that would result in unpredictable behavior.
             </para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>



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