minix/lib/libc/gen/getdevmajor.3
Ben Gras 2fe8fb192f Full switch to clang/ELF. Drop ack. Simplify.
There is important information about booting non-ack images in
docs/UPDATING. ack/aout-format images can't be built any more, and
booting clang/ELF-format ones is a little different. Updating to the
new boot monitor is recommended.

Changes in this commit:

	. drop boot monitor -> allowing dropping ack support
	. facility to copy ELF boot files to /boot so that old boot monitor
	  can still boot fairly easily, see UPDATING
	. no more ack-format libraries -> single-case libraries
	. some cleanup of OBJECT_FMT, COMPILER_TYPE, etc cases
	. drop several ack toolchain commands, but not all support
	  commands (e.g. aal is gone but acksize is not yet).
	. a few libc files moved to netbsd libc dir
	. new /bin/date as minix date used code in libc/
	. test compile fix
	. harmonize includes
	. /usr/lib is no longer special: without ack, /usr/lib plays no
	  kind of special bootstrapping role any more and bootstrapping
	  is done exclusively through packages, so releases depend even
	  less on the state of the machine making them now.
	. rename nbsd_lib* to lib*
	. reduce mtree
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.Dd January 20, 2009
.Dt GETDEVMAJOR 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm getdevmajor
.Nd get block or character device major number
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In stdlib.h
.In sys/stat.h
.Ft devmajor_t
.Fn getdevmajor "const char *name" "mode_t type"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn getdevmajor
function returns the major device number of the block or character
device specified by
.Ar name
and a file type matching the one encoded in
.Fa type
which must be one of
.Dv S_IFBLK
or
.Dv S_IFCHR .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If no device matches the specified values, no information is
available, or an error occurs,
.Dv NODEVMAJOR
is returned and
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Sh EXAMPLES
To retrieve the major number for
.Xr pty 4
slave devices (aka pts devices):
.Bd -literal -offset indent
#include \*[Lt]stdlib.h\*[Gt]
#include \*[Lt]sys/stat.h\*[Gt]
.sp
devmajor_t pts;
pts = getdevmajor("pts", S_IFCHR);
.Ed
.Pp
To retrieve the major numbers for the block and character
.Xr wd 4
devices:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
#include \*[Lt]stdlib.h\*[Gt]
#include \*[Lt]sys/stat.h\*[Gt]
.sp
devmajor_t c, b;
c = getdevmajor("wd", S_IFCHR);
b = getdevmajor("wd", S_IFBLK);
.Ed
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn getdevmajor
function may fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the library functions
.Xr malloc 3
and
.Xr sysctlbyname 3 .
In addition, the following errors may be reported:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The value of the
.Fa type
argument is not
.Dv S_IFCHR
or
.Dv S_IFBLK .
.It Bq Er ENOENT
The named device is not found.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr devname 3 ,
.Xr malloc 3 ,
.Xr sysctlbyname 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn getdevmajor
function call appeared in
.Nx 3.0 .