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DEV_MKDB(8)             OpenBSD System Manager's Manual            DEV_MKDB(8)

NAME
     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)

HISTORY
     The dev_mkdb command appeared in 4.4BSD.

OpenBSD 2.3                      June 6, 1993                                1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.

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