/dev
device directory
dev_mkdb8
Create /dev database
Usage
dev_mkdb
Overview
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.
Files
-
-
/var/run/dev.db -
database file
Releases
61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 6 times.