Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 02:09:54 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device number for watchdog board driver Message-ID: <199510190909.CAA13072@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:32:51 BST." <199510190732.IAA02775@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Curious what are you running over there...
dev_mkdb - create /dev database
SYNOPSIS
dev_mkdb
DESCRIPTION
The dev_mkdb command creates a db(3) hash access method database in
``/var/run/dev.db'' which contains the names of all of the character and
block special files in the ``/dev'' directory, using the file type and
the st_rdev field as the key.
Keys are a structure containing a mode_t followed by a dev_t, with any
padding zero'd out. The former is the type of the file (st_mode &
S_IFMT), the latter is the st_rdev field.
FILES
/dev Device directory.
/var/run/dev.db Database file.
SEE ALSO
ps(1), stat(2), db(3), devname(3), kvm_nlist(3), ttyname(3),
kvm_mkdb(8)
rah#
Regards,
Amancio
>>> J Wunsch said:
> As Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote:
> >
> > Nope,
> >
> > I was hoping for something along the lines of sysctl which will tell
> > me which devices the system things that it has in the *running kernel*
> >
> > sysctl -listdevices ?? or a functionally equivalent command.
>
> Interesting. In order to answer your question, i typed "dev", and
> then hit TAB (in tcsh). "dev_mkdb devmenue" was the answer. Ok, "m",
> another TAB -- mucho surprised! :-)
>
> --
> cheers, J"org
>
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIP
E
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>
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