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21 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Warner Losh
fbbd9655e5 Renumber copyright clause 4
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.

Submitted by:	Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request:	https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
2017-02-28 23:42:47 +00:00
Ed Schouten
26d4f5e969 Add two new routines: fdevname() and fdevname_r().
A more elegant way of obtaining a name of a character device by its file
descriptor on FreeBSD, is to use the FIODGNAME ioctl. Because a valid
file descriptor implies a file descriptor is visible in /dev, it will
always resolve a valid device name.

I'm adding a more friendly wrapper for this ioctl, called fdevname(). It
is a lot easier to use than devname() and also has better error
handling. When a device name cannot be resolved, it will just return
NULL instead of a generated device name that makes no sense.

Discussed with:	kib
2009-02-11 20:24:59 +00:00
Warner Losh
c879ae3536 Per Regents of the University of Calfornia letter, remove advertising
clause.

# If I've done so improperly on a file, please let me know.
2007-01-09 00:28:16 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
0e5d513b50 Add an EXAMPLES section[1], quote Nd, and bump doc date.
PR:		53621 [1]
Submitted by:	Faried Nawaz <fn@hungry.com> [1]
2005-02-23 02:02:38 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a1de21c12e mdoc(7): Fix common mistakes made in the SEE ALSO section. 2003-09-12 21:54:11 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
529ac58781 Add devname_r(3) which takes a buffer as argument. 2003-06-20 09:52:27 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
57bd0fc6e8 english(4) police. 2002-12-27 12:15:40 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
95f4226b27 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fn function". 2002-12-18 10:13:54 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
1dd9f42a29 mdoc(7) police: bump document date to the date of the last interface
change (revision 1.2 of devname.c on 1999/07/18), don't put quotes
around a path, and use .Dv where appropriate.
2002-03-18 02:36:43 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
f04938aa8e Update to reflect reality; devname(3) hasn't returned NULL on failure
since revision 1.2 of devname.c (1999/07/18).  While I'm here, note,
in the BUGS section, that the returned pointer is to a static buffer.
2002-03-18 02:32:53 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
32eef9aeb1 mdoc(7) police: Use the new .In macro for #include statements. 2001-10-01 16:09:29 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a307d59838 mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call. 2001-07-10 13:41:46 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
8d25eb2c3a Add code to devname(3) so it can find the names of devices which
were not present when dev_mkdb(8) was run.

First the dev_mkdb(8) database is searched, this caters for non-DEVFS
cases where people have renamed a device.

If that fails we ask the kernel using sysctl kern.devname if the device
driver has put a name in the dev_t.  This covers DEVFS cloned devices.

If that also fails we format a string which isn't entirely useless.
2000-09-09 11:39:59 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
25bb73e063 Introduce ".Lb" macro to libc manpages.
More libraries manpages updates following.
2000-04-21 09:42:15 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7f3dea244c $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
Bruce Evans
6b288cfa64 Backed out previous commit. devname.3 and devname.c were broken in Lite1
(devname() returned "??" when the lookup failed, but callers expected it
to return NULL).  This was fixed in Lite2, but until recently the changes
were only merged into devname.3.  A day or two after devname.c was fixed,
devname.3 was made inconsistent again by backing out most of the Lite2
changes.
1999-07-24 00:33:27 +00:00
Nik Clayton
d4cd00eae1 Correct the information about the return value when no device matches
(or no information is available).

PR:             docs/12707
Submitted by:   Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
1999-07-20 20:48:40 +00:00
Nik Clayton
fbc400a67a Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 20:50:10 +00:00
Peter Wemm
0014b4c0e1 Merge from Lite2: man page updates 1997-03-11 11:47:52 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
bf5a138ec4 Update a bunch of man pages to use .Fn instead
of .Nm when referencing funciton names.
1996-08-22 22:05:59 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
58f0484fa2 BSD 4.4 Lite Lib Sources 1994-05-27 05:00:24 +00:00