1.\" Copyright (c) 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)devname.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/04/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt DEVNAME 3 10.Os BSD 4.4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm devname 13.Nd get device name 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Fd #include <stdlib.h> 16.Ft char * 17.Fn devname "dev_t dev" "mode_t type" 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19The 20.Fn devname 21function returns a pointer to the name of the block or character 22device in 23.Dq Pa /dev 24with a device number of 25.Fa dev , 26and a file type matching the one encoded in 27.Fa type 28which must be one of S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR. 29If no device matches the specified values, or no information is 30available, the string 31.Dq ?? 32is returned. 33.Sh SEE ALSO 34.Xr stat 2 , 35.Xr dev_mkdb 8 36.Sh HISTORY 37The 38.Nm devname 39function call appeared in 40.Bx 4.4 . 41