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MAKEDEV(3) Linux Programmer's Manual MAKEDEV(3)
makedev, major, minor - manage a device number
#include <sys/sysmacros.h>
dev_t makedev(unsigned int maj, unsigned int min);
unsigned int major(dev_t dev);
unsigned int minor(dev_t dev);
A device ID consists of two parts: a major ID, identifying the class
of the device, and a minor ID, identifying a specific instance of a
device in that class. A device ID is represented using the type
dev_t.
Given major and minor device IDs, makedev() combines these to produce
a device ID, returned as the function result. This device ID can be
given to mknod(2), for example.
The major() and minor() functions perform the converse task: given a
device ID, they return, respectively, the major and minor components.
These macros can be useful to, for example, decompose the device IDs
in the structure returned by stat(2).
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
┌────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│makedev(), major(), minor() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
The makedev(), major(), and minor() functions are not specified in
POSIX.1, but are present on many other systems.
These interfaces are defined as macros. Since glibc 2.3.3, they have
been aliases for three GNU-specific functions: gnu_dev_makedev(),
gnu_dev_major(), and gnu_dev_minor(). The latter names are exported,
but the traditional names are more portable.
The BSDs expose the definitions for these macros via <sys/types.h>,
and glibc also exposes definitions for these macros from that header
file if suitable feature test macros are defined.
mknod(2), stat(2)
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Linux 2016-03-15 MAKEDEV(3)
Pages that refer to this page: mknod(2), stat(2), udev_device_new_from_syspath(3)