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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/devname.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/devname.3 b/lib/libc/gen/devname.3 index 6904a89..fef7674 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/devname.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/devname.3 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)devname.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 29, 1995 +.Dd July 18, 1999 .Dt DEVNAME 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -50,12 +50,15 @@ The .Fn devname function returns a pointer to the name of the block or character device in -.Dq Pa /dev +.Pa /dev with a device number of .Fa dev , and a file type matching the one encoded in .Fa type -which must be one of S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR. +which must be one of +.Dv S_IFBLK +or +.Dv S_IFCHR . To find the right name, .Fn devname first searches the device database created by |
