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author | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-02-11 20:24:59 +0000 |
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committer | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-02-11 20:24:59 +0000 |
commit | de78bbbfe832781ef4718e4d175d53fbe4e7ac40 (patch) | |
tree | 0b13c353e44fe54b12f0be5c1ae687436add79ee /usr.bin/stat | |
parent | c1e92bfb206adffe9aca701014c9028722d1ed02 (diff) | |
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Add two new routines: fdevname() and fdevname_r().
A more elegant way of obtaining a name of a character device by its file
descriptor on FreeBSD, is to use the FIODGNAME ioctl. Because a valid
file descriptor implies a file descriptor is visible in /dev, it will
always resolve a valid device name.
I'm adding a more friendly wrapper for this ioctl, called fdevname(). It
is a lot easier to use than devname() and also has better error
handling. When a device name cannot be resolved, it will just return
NULL instead of a generated device name that makes no sense.
Discussed with: kib
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