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DEVNAME(3)              NetBSD Library Functions Manual             DEVNAME(3)


NAME

     devname -- get device name


LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)


SYNOPSIS

     #include <stdlib.h>
     #include <sys/stat.h>

     char *
     devname(dev_t dev, mode_t type);


DESCRIPTION

     The devname() function returns a pointer to the name of the block or
     character device in ``/dev'' with a device number of dev, and a file type
     matching the one encoded in type which must be one of S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR.
     If no device matches the specified values, or no information is avail-
     able, NULL is returned.

     The traditional display for applications when no device is found is the
     string ``??''.


FILES

     /var/run/dev.cdb  Device database file.


SEE ALSO

     stat(2), dev_mkdb(8)


HISTORY

     The devname function call appeared in 4.4BSD.

NetBSD 6.1.2                     June 3, 2012                     NetBSD 6.1.2