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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man3/devname.3 b/static/netbsd/man3/devname.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e287d8b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man3/devname.3 @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: devname.3,v 1.17 2017/09/10 10:12:43 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)devname.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95 +.\" +.Dd September 9, 2017 +.Dt DEVNAME 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm devname , +.Nm devname_r +.Nd get device name +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In stdlib.h +.In sys/stat.h +.Ft char * +.Fn devname "dev_t dev" "mode_t type" +.Ft int +.Fn devname_r "dev_t dev" "mode_t type" "char *path" "size_t len" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn devname +function returns a pointer to the static buffer with the name of the +block or character device in +.Dq Pa /dev +with a device number of +.Fa dev , +and a file type matching the one encoded in +.Fa type +which must be one of S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR. +If no device matches the specified values, or no information is +available, +.Dv NULL +is returned. +.Pp +The +.Fn devname_r +function is a reentrant and thread-safe version of +.Fn devname . +This function returns the device name by copying it into the +.Fa path +argument with up to +.Fa len +characters. +The +.Fa path +argument is always nul-terminated. +.Pp +The traditional display for applications when no device is +found is the string +.Dq ?? . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +If successful, +.Fn devname +returns a pointer to a nul-terminated string containing the name of the device. +If an error occurs +.Fa devname +will return +.Dv NULL . +.Pp +If successful, +.Fn devname_r +places a nul-terminated string containing the name of the device in +the buffer pointed to by +.Ar path +and returns 0. +If an error occurs +.Fn devname_r +will return an error number from +.In sys/errno.h +indicating what went wrong. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /var/run/dev.cdb -compact +.It Pa /var/run/dev.cdb +Device database file. +.El +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn devname_r +function may fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er ENOENT +The corresponding device does not exist. +.It Bq Er ERANGE +The passed buffer length is too short. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr stat 2 , +.Xr dev_mkdb 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm devname +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.4 . +.Pp +The +.Fn devname_r +function first appeared in +.Nx 6.0 . |
