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From: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
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Subject: devname won't recognise some devices
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hi,

this function returned a "??" when called as
	devname (196612, S_IFCHR)
but gave me "wd0s2e" when called as
        devname (196612, S_IFBLK)

any ideas why it won't work with S_IFCHR? rwd0s2e is in /var/run/dev.db
and i'm running as root.

brw-r-----  1 root  wheel    0, 196612 Jul 22 10:22 /dev/wd0s2e
crw-r-----  1 root  wheel    3, 196612 Jul 22 10:22 /dev/rwd0s2e

thanks.

ivan