sysdecode_ioctlname(3)

sysdecode_ioctlname3

Lookup name of device control command

Usage

#include <sysdecode.h>

const char *

sysdecode_ioctlname(unsigned long request);

Library

library “libsysdecode”

Overview

The sysdecode_ioctlname() function returns the name of a device control request identified by request. A table of names is generated during the build of the sysdecode library from system headers that maps device control request values to the name of the corresponding C macro.

Return values

The sysdecode_ioctlname() function returns the name of a device control request if request is a known value; otherwise NULL.

Releases

25 releases since FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE; the text changed 12 times.

  1. 11.0
  2. 11.1
  3. 11.2
  4. 11.3
  5. 11.4
  6. 12.0
  7. 12.1
  8. 12.2
  9. 12.3
  10. 12.4
  11. 13.0–13.1
  12. 13.2
  13. 13.3–16.0

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.