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 zeroed 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 4.7                      May 31, 2007                                1
