Phil Dibowitz wrote on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:15:00PM -0700 :
> >Not a typo, but it does not matter. You can have /dev special files
> >anywhere, in any directory, as long as they carry the right numbers. It
> >is the preferred way to have /dev/usb/ directory, but you don't have to.
> Ah. I didn't put 'em there, I guess it's where my distro decided they 
> should go...

Most likely devfs doing that.

> crw-rw----    1 root     dialout  188,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/ttyUSB0
> crw-rw----    1 root     disk     188,   1 Mar 14  2002 /dev/ttyUSB1
<snip>

But that doesn't look like devfs.  Interesting.

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