NAME
devpubd —
device publish daemon for automatic
device node creation
SYNOPSIS
devpubd |
[-f] |
DESCRIPTION
devpubd listens on
drvctl(4) for new devices and creates their device nodes using
MAKEDEV(8) if they are missing.
When -f is specified,
devpubd does not go into the background.
devpubd runs
/libexec/devpubd-run-hooks. This script runs each
script found in /libexec/devpubd-hooks in a lexical
order with two arguments: device-attach or
device-detach and the device file name. The default
installation supplies the 01-makedev script for
creating a device node and the 02-wedgenames script
for creating symlinks to wedge devices under /dev/wedges. Additional scripts
may be added for other dynamic device actions.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
A devpubd utility appeared in
NetBSD 6.0.