| DEV_MKDB(8) | System Manager's Manual | DEV_MKDB(8) |
dev_mkdb — create
/dev database
dev_mkdb |
The dev_mkdb command creates a
hash(3) access method Berkeley
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 zeroed out. The
former is the type of the file (st_mode
& S_IFMT), the latter is
the st_rdev field.
ps(1), stat(2), dbopen(3), devname(3), kvm_nlist(3), ttyname(3), kvm_mkdb(8)
The dev_mkdb command appeared in
4.3BSD-Net/2.
| August 4, 2022 | openbsd |