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Backed out previous commit. devname.3 and devname.c were broken in Lite1

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(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.
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Bruce Evans 1999-07-24 00:33:27 +00:00
parent 03e3bc8e62
commit 6b288cfa64
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)devname.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/29/95
.\" $Id: devname.3,v 1.4 1999/07/12 20:46:25 nik Exp $
.\" $Id: devname.3,v 1.5 1999/07/20 20:48:40 nik Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 29, 1995
.Dt DEVNAME 3
@ -54,9 +54,11 @@ and a file type matching the one encoded in
.Fa 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
.Dq ??
is returned.
available, NULL is returned.
.Pp
The traditional display for applications when no device is
found is the string
.Dq ?? .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr dev_mkdb 8