129 lines
3.5 KiB
Groff
129 lines
3.5 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1996
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.\" Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software donated to Berkeley by
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.\" Jan-Simon Pendry.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd September 18, 2010
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.Dt DEVFS 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm devfs
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.Nd device file system
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Bd -literal
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devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0
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.Ed
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The device file system, or
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.Nm ,
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provides access to kernel's device
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namespace in the global file system namespace.
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The conventional mount point is
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.Pa /dev .
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.Pp
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The file system includes several directories, links, symbolic links
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and devices, some of which can also be written.
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In a chroot'ed
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environment,
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.Nm
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can be used to create a new
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.Pa /dev
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mount point.
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.Pp
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The
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.Xr mknod 8
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tool can be used to recover deleted device entries under
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.Nm .
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.Pp
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The
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.Xr fdescfs 5
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filesystem is an alternate means for populating
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.Pa /dev/fd .
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The character devices that both
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.Nm
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and
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.Xr fdescfs 5
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present in
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.Pa /dev/fd
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correspond to the open file descriptors of the process
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accessing the directory.
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.Nm
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only creates files for the standard file descriptors
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.Pa 0 ,
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.Pa 1
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and
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.Pa 2 .
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.Xr fdescfs 5
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creates files for all open descriptors.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /dev/XXXX -compact
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.It Pa /dev
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The normal
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.Nm
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mount point.
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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To mount a
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.Nm
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volume located on
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.Pa /mychroot/dev :
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.Pp
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.Dl "mount -t devfs devfs /mychroot/dev"
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr fdescfs 5 ,
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.Xr devfs 8 ,
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.Xr mount 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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file system first appeared in
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.Fx 2.0 .
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It became the preferred method for accessing devices in
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.Fx 5.0
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and the only method in
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.Fx 6.0 .
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The
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.Nm
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manual page first appeared in
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.Fx 2.2 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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.Nm
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manual page was written by
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.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org .
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