devfseventd(1M)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXIT STATUS | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES

NAME

devfseventd- kernel event notification daemon for devfsadmd

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/devfsadm/devfseventd

DESCRIPTION

devfseventd(1M) is a daemon that provides kernel event notification services to the devfsadmd(1M) daemon.

devfsadmd uses devfseventd to receive notifications when device nodes are added or removed from the kernel device tree or when a new version of path_to_inst(4) needs to be flushed to disk.

The /etc/rcS.d/S50devfsadm script starts devfseventd.

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

non-zero

An error occurred.

FILES

/usr/lib/devfsadm/devfseventd

devfsevent daemon

/etc/init.d/devfsadm

daemon start and stop script

/etc/rcS.d/S50devfsadm

link to init.d script

/etc/rc0.d/K83devfsadm

link to init.d script

/dev/.devfseventd_daemon.lock

update lock file

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcsu

SEE ALSO

devfsadm(1M), devfsadmd(1M), path_to_inst(4),attributes(5)

NOTES

This document does not constitute an API. devfseventd and /etc/path_to_inst may not exist or may have different contents or interpretations in a future release. The existence of this notice does not imply that any other documentation that lacks this notice constitutes an API.

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXIT STATUS | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES