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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ed Schouten
86b6b655e4 Remove (hidden) warning about missing prototypes for fdevname(3). 2009-12-05 18:51:44 +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