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| author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-11-24 13:10:30 +0000 |
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| committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-11-24 13:10:30 +0000 |
| commit | 7aa1b5698ed1f42cef3ab3b70435e22466e12a75 (patch) | |
| tree | 366ea194a06cce13b371d3ce36f5b88117243feb /share | |
| parent | 21efd8a51eca5903d1d2d1f0a5afa65c6f7ec805 (diff) | |
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Make it clear that the device name may contain '/' characters to place
a device in a subdirectory. Also explicitly state that the name is
constructed using fmt like printf would print it.
MFC After: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/make_dev.9 | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/make_dev.9 b/share/man/man9/make_dev.9 index f302c0e..d145477 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/make_dev.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/make_dev.9 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd September 20, 2005 +.Dd November 24, 2006 .Os .Dt MAKE_DEV 9 .Sh NAME @@ -57,9 +57,19 @@ the presence of the new device. The device will be owned by .Va uid , with the group ownership as -.Va gid , -and with the name as specified in -.Va name . +.Va gid . +The name is the expansion of +.Va fmt +and following arguments as +.Xr printf 9 +would print it. +The name determines its path under +.Pa /dev +or other +.Xr devfs 5 +mount point and may contain slash +.Ql / +characters to denote subdirectories. The permissions of the file specified in .Va perms are defined in |
