DEV_MKDB(8) | System Manager's Manual | DEV_MKDB(8) |
dev_mkdb
— create
/dev database
dev_mkdb |
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.
ps(1), stat(2), db(3), devname(3), kvm_nlist(3), ttyname(3), kvm_mkdb(8)
The dev_mkdb
command appeared in
4.4BSD.
June 6, 1993 | macOS 14.6 |