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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/make_dev.9 | 18 |
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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 |
