NAME
devpubd —
device publish daemon for
automatic device node creation
SYNOPSIS
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
drvctl(8),
MAKEDEV(8)
HISTORY
A
devpubd utility appeared in
NetBSD
6.0.