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From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: [Q] Raw interface to block devices
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 05:20:16 +0200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <199605100121.LAA20111@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 10, 96 11:21:39 am
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Bruce Evans wrote:

> devname(3) seems to be almost what you want.  You can stat the first name
> to get the dev number and then call devname() to get the other name.  It
> searches quickly through all the names in /var/run/dev.db.

I've just tried that, and it seems to be _exactly_ what I want. :-)

> devname() seems to be used only in ps and pstat.  It should be used in
> badsect, fsck ... (fsck has its own functions rawname() and unrawname()).
> 
> ps has a bogus private copy of /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/devname.c.

I was looking at fsck, and rather hoped for something better.  Thanks!

-- 
Robert Nordier