DEVNAME(3) MachTen Programmer’s Manual DEVNAME(3)

NAME
devname - get device name

SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>

char *
devname(dev_t dev, mode_t type)

DESCRIPTION
The devname() function returns a pointer to the name of the block or
character device in ‘‘/dev’’ with a device number of dev, and a file type
matching the one encoded in type which must be one of S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR.
If no device matches the specified values, or no information is avail-
able, the string ‘‘??’’ is returned.

SEE ALSO
stat(2), dev_mkdb(8)

HISTORY
The devname function call appeared in 4.4BSD.

4.4BSD June 4, 1993 1