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<refentry id="libudev"
<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>
<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>
+ a udev context.</para>
+
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<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,
+ and friends. The device object allows one to query current state,
read and write attributes and lookup properties of the device in
question.</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
+ 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
+ query the udev daemon (which should not be used by new software
at all).</para>
</refsect1>