manage a device number NAME makedev, major, minor - manage a device number LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc , -lc ) SYNOPSIS...manage a device number NAME makedev, major, minor - manage a device number LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc , -lc ) SYNOPSIS...manage a device number NAME makedev, major, minor - manage a device number LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc , -lc ) SYNOPSIS...manage a device number NAME makedev, major, minor - manage a device number LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc , -lc ) SYNOPSIS...manage a device number NAME makedev, major, minor - manage a device number LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc , -lc ) SYNOPSIS...manage a device number NAME makedev, major, minor - manage a device number LIBRARY Standard C library ( libc , -lc ) SYNOPSIS......IPTION /proc/devices Text listing of major numbers and device groups. This can be used by MAKEDEV scripts for consistency with the kernel. SEE ALSO proc (5)...RIPTION Used for device IDs. It is an integer type. For further details of this type, see makedev (3). STANDARDS POSIX.1-2008. HISTORY POSIX.1-2001. NOTES The following header a…...then dev specifies the major and minor numbers of the newly created device special file ( makedev (3) may be useful to build the value for dev ); otherwise it is ignored. If pat…...then dev specifies the major and minor numbers of the newly created device special file ( makedev (3) may be useful to build the value for dev ); otherwise it is ignored. If pat…...d/N is approximately the same as /dev/fd/N in some UNIX and UNIX-like systems. Most Linux MAKEDEV scripts symbolically link /dev/fd to /proc/self/fd , in fact. Most systems prov…