Is it possible to create a directory under /dev?

[Norberto Meijome]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 10:02:08 +0300
Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:

> But, by the way, there is a (slightly) more valid reason to want to 
> create a directory under /dev, I recently had it. For one non-standard 
> third-party application I needed to create a link to existing device in 
> a certain subdirectory. I.e.:
> /dev/subdirX/device -> /dev/deviceX
> And I couldn't do that.
> Or maybe link operation for devfs just needs to be taught about creating 
> subdirectories on demand. I don't know.

you can create links with devfs - man devfs.conf
[...]
link    This action creates a symbolic link named arg that points to
             devname, the name of the device created by devfs(5).
[..]



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