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30.Dd $Mdocdate: June 5 2013 $
31.Dt DEVNAME 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm devname
35.Nd get device name
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In sys/stat.h
38.In stdlib.h
39.Ft char *
40.Fn devname "dev_t dev" "mode_t type"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Fn devname
44function returns a pointer to the name of the block or character
45device in
46.Pa /dev
47with a device number of
48.Fa dev ,
49and a file type matching the one encoded in
50.Fa type
51which must be one of
52.Dv S_IFBLK
53or
54.Dv S_IFCHR .
55If no device matches the specified values, or no information is
56available, a pointer to the string
57.Qq ??
58is returned.
59.Sh SEE ALSO
60.Xr stat 2 ,
61.Xr dev_mkdb 8
62.Sh HISTORY
63The
64.Nm devname
65function call appeared in
66.Bx 4.4 .
67