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devname(3) [netbsd man page]

DEVNAME(3)						   BSD 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 available, 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. BSD
June 3, 2012 BSD
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