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| author | Hugh Graham <hugh@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-05-01 06:05:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Hugh Graham <hugh@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-05-01 06:05:34 +0000 |
| commit | c848fe89af4c851a8ccac4ec3a589c581c90fd7f (patch) | |
| tree | f6756f8693da2a7c1dcb16d3af5b19f75611400d /lib/libutil/opendev.3 | |
| parent | 7ca2f447ce86b9422f49af5f11f26e61f665748e (diff) | |
Document device lookup semantics.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libutil/opendev.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libutil/opendev.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/opendev.3 b/lib/libutil/opendev.3 index 7ceb063a100..099829ba88f 100644 --- a/lib/libutil/opendev.3 +++ b/lib/libutil/opendev.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: opendev.3,v 1.9 2000/04/30 17:37:46 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: opendev.3,v 1.10 2000/05/01 06:05:33 hugh Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2000, Todd C. Miller. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 1996, Jason Downs. All rights reserved. @@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ for instance, which will be expanded to .Pa /dev/rsd0c on most architectures. .Pp +Device name lookup is done by first checking +.Fa path +for a +.Dq / +and if one is found attempting to open that file. +Otherwise +.Fa /dev +is searched for a matching device. +.Pp The .Fa oflags are the same as the |