From: Erik van der Kouwe <erik@minix3.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:34:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Create man pages for bigsh and dev2name
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Create man pages for bigsh and dev2name
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diff --git a/man/man1/ash.1 b/man/man1/ash.1
index 2f7e40e4b..2f237ace8 100644
--- a/man/man1/ash.1
+++ b/man/man1/ash.1
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 .B \\$1
 ..
 .SH NAME
-ash, sh, ., break, case, cd, command, continue, eval, exec, exit, export, for, getopts, hash, if, jobs, local, read, readonly, return, set, setvar, shift, trap, umask, unset, wait, while \- a shell
+ash, sh, bigsh, ., break, case, cd, command, continue, eval, exec, exit, export, for, getopts, hash, if, jobs, local, read, readonly, return, set, setvar, shift, trap, umask, unset, wait, while \- a shell
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B ash
 [
@@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ procedure if neither the
 nor the
 .B -c
 options are set.)
+.PP
+In older versions of MINIX that did not have virtual memory, it was
+important for executables to have enough memory assigned to them. The
+.B bigsh
+binary was provided for shells that need much memory. This command is
+retained for backward compatibility and need not be used on MINIX 3.1.4
+and later.
 .h "Control Structures"
 A
 .I list
diff --git a/man/man1/dev2name.1 b/man/man1/dev2name.1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3121af96e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man1/dev2name.1
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+.TH DEV2NAME 1
+.SH NAME
+dev2name \- obtain device name given its number
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBdev2name\fR \fIdeviceno\fR
+.br
+\fBdev2name\fR \fImajor\fR \fIminor\fR
+.br
+.de FL
+.TP
+\\fB\\$1\\fR
+\\$2
+..
+.SH OPTIONS
+.FL "\fImajor\fR" "Major device number for which to obtain device name"
+.FL "\fIminor\fR" "Minor device number for which to obtain device name"
+.FL "\fIdeviceno\fR" "Full device number for which to obtain device name (specifies the minor device number in the low-order byte and the major device number in the remainder)"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+This utility locates a file in \fB/dev\fR that represents the device with the specified major/minor device number and prints its name to the standard output. The exit code is zero if such a device is found and non-zero if no such device was found.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR mknod (1),
+.BR DESCRIBE (1),
+.BR MAKEDEV (1).