Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:05:56 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to create a directory under /dev? Message-ID: <20080523110556.485afa89@ayiin> In-Reply-To: <48351A70.8090402@icyb.net.ua> References: <e71790db0805212022r6b6f4e0ua050ead1ec5520f@mail.gmail.com> <48351A70.8090402@icyb.net.ua>
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On Thu, 22 May 2008 10:02:08 +0300
Andriy Gapon <avg@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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