Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:37:01 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to create a directory under /dev? Message-ID: <4836660D.1070801@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <48351A70.8090402@icyb.net.ua> References: <20080523110556.485afa89@ayiin>
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Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote: > 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). > [..] 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
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