NAME

devname − get device name

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
 char ∗
devname(dev, type)
    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 available, the string ??  is returned. 

SEE ALSO

stat(2), dev_mkdb(8)

HISTORY

The devname function call appeared in 4.4BSD. 

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  February 3, 1995