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DEVTONAME(9)          DragonFly Kernel Developer's Manual         DEVTONAME(9)

NAME
     devtoname -- converts cdev_t data into a string indicating the device
     name

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <sys/conf.h>

     const char *
     devtoname(cdev_t dev);

DESCRIPTION
     The devtoname() function returns a pointer to the name of the device
     passed to it.  The name is whatever was set to it in make_dev().  If no
     name is associated with dev, a pointer to a string consisting of a ``#''
     followed by ``major/minor'' as it applies to dev is returned.

HISTORY
     The devtoname() interface first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0

DragonFly 3.5                  February 10, 2009                 DragonFly 3.5