On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:57:55AM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > A problem with MAKEDEV is, that it places the MAKEDEV *binary* into > /dev. This is a really bad place for it; devfs under 2.4 removed it and > buildsystems which need a special /dev will remove it also. Unix tradition is the essential reason for this. Nothing more.