bsd man page for devname

DEVNAME(3)						     Library Functions Manual							DEVNAME(3)

NAME
       devname - get device name

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/types.h>

       char *
       devname(dev, type)
	   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, the string ??  is returned.

SEE ALSO
       stat(2), dev_mkdb(8)

HISTORY
       The devname function call appeared in 4.4BSD.

4th Berkeley Distribution					 February 3, 1995							DEVNAME(3)