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authorpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-11 11:47:52 +0000
committerpeter <peter@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-11 11:47:52 +0000
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Merge from Lite2: man page updates
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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/devname.3 b/lib/libc/gen/devname.3
index 1ecbc75..8f9ad92 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/devname.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/devname.3
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" @(#)devname.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\" @(#)devname.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95
.\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd April 29, 1995
.Dt DEVNAME 3
.Os BSD 4.4
.Sh NAME
@@ -53,9 +53,11 @@ and a file type matching the one encoded in
.Fa 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
-.Dq ??
-is returned.
+available, NULL is returned.
+.Pp
+The traditional display for applications when no device is
+found is the string
+.Dq ?? .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr dev_mkdb 8
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