Is it possible to create a directory under /dev?

[Andriy Gapon]

Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> 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).
> [..]

I do know that.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough: "/dev/deviceX" was existing device node and 
I needed to create "/dev/subdirX/device" link, where directory 
"/dev/subdirX" didn't exist.
Any help on this?

-- 
Andriy Gapon