1.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Chris Costello 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd September 25, 1999 28.Os 29.Dt DEVTONAME 9 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm devtoname 32.Nd "converts dev_t data into a string indicating the device name" 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.In sys/param.h 35.In sys/conf.h 36.Ft const char * 37.Fn devtoname "dev_t dev" 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Fn devtoname 41function returns a pointer to the name of the device passed to it. 42The name is whatever was set to it in 43.Fn make_dev . 44If no name is associated with 45.Va dev , 46a pointer to a string consisting of a 47.Dq # 48followed by 49.Dq Va major Ns / Ns Va minor 50as it applies to 51.Va dev 52is returned. 53.Sh HISTORY 54The 55.Fn devtoname 56interface first appeared in 57.Fx 4.0 58