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DEVTONAME (9) | Kernel routines | Unix Manual Pages | :man▋
NAME
devtoname - "converts dev_t data into a string indicating the device name"
CONTENTS
Synopsis Description History
SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h .In sys/conf.h const char * devtoname "dev_t dev"
DESCRIPTION
The devtoname function returns a pointer to the name of the device passed to it. The name is whatever was set to it in make_dev. If no name is associated with dev, a pointer to a string consisting of a "#" followed by "major / minor" as it applies to dev is returned.
HISTORY
The devtoname interface first appeared in .Fx 4.0 | September 25, 1999 | DEVTONAME (9) | | shtml">manServer 1.07 from devtoname.9 using doc macros.
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