dev_mkdb8

Usage

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

/dev

device directory

/var/run/dev.db

database file