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43 daemon attaches itself to the kernel's udev interface,
45 and provides an interface for the
47 library to access the kernel's udev events and device properties.
50 daemon has to be running for the
54 The options are as follows:
60 to not go to the background.
65 utility creates the file
66 .Pa /var/run/udevd.pid ,
67 and stores its process id there.
68 This can be used to kill