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David Herrmann 06255d6f76 man: add libudev man-pages (skeletons)
This adds man-pages for most of the libudev symbols we export. Similar
symbols are grouped together in a single man-page, with respective links
added. All man-pages contain the full skeleton including NAME, SYNOPSIS,
RETURN VALUE and SEE ALSO. However, most of them still lack the
DESCRIPTION part. This should be copied from the gtkdoc descriptions in
src/libudev/libudev*.[ch]. Any help is welcome! (the whole skeleton is
already done, so it's really just about the prose-part of the man-pages to
be written).

Missing from the man-pages are the following parts:
  - udev_set_log_fn()
  - udev_[gs]et_log_priority()
  - udev_[gs]et_userdata()
  - udev_list_entry_foreach()
  - udev_device_get_seqnum()
  - udev_device_get_usec_since_initialized()
  - udev_util_encode_string()
These are considered legacy, afaik. If not, please feel free to add them
now!

Furthermore, udev-hwdb and udev-queue are not documented at all (for the
same reasons).
2015-06-17 15:22:49 +02:00

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Copyright 2015 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
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-->
<refentry id="libudev"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>libudev</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>David</firstname>
<surname>Herrmann</surname>
<email>dh.herrmann@gmail.com</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>libudev</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>libudev</refname>
<refpurpose>API for enumerating and introspecting local devices</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;libudev.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
</funcsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>pkg-config --cflags --libs libudev</command>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><filename>libudev.h</filename> provides APIs to introspect
and enumerate devices on the local system.</para>
<para>All functions require a libudev context to operate. This
context can be create via
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
It is used to track library state and link objects together. No
global state is used by libudev, everything is always linked to
a udev context. Furthermore, multiple different udev contexts can
be used in parallel by multiple threads. However, a single context
must not be accessed by multiple threads in parallel. The caller
is responsible of providing suitable locking if they intend to use
it from multiple threads.</para>
<para>To introspect a local device on a system, a udev device
object can be created via
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_device_new_from_syspath</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
and friends. The device object allows to query current state,
read and write attributes and lookup properties of the device in
question.</para>
<para>To enumerate local devices on the system, an enumeration
object can be created via
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_enumerate_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<para>To monitor the local system for hotplugged or unplugged
devices, a monitor can be created via
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_monitor_new_from_netlink</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<para>Whenever libudev returns a list of objects, the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_list_entry</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
API should be used to iterate, access and modify those lists.</para>
<para>Furthermore, libudev also exports legacy APIs that should
not be used by new software (and as such are not documented as
part of this manual). This includes the hardware-database known
as <constant>udev_hwdb</constant> (please use the new
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-hwdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
API instead) and the <constant>udev_queue</constant> object to
query the udev-daemon (which should not be used by new software
at all).</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_device_new_from_syspath</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_enumerate_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_monitor_new_from_netlink</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_list_entry</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-device</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-hwdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>