On 30 Jul 2001, Bdale Garbee wrote: > ssmeenk@debian.org (Sander Smeenk) writes: > > > Shouldn't the MAKEDEV script do that (cd /dev) automagically? > > Absolutely not. > > > What's the use of creating devices in the current directory? > > There are many reasons to create devices in other than the /dev directory. As in, running MAKEDEV in an alternate root location(think, installation systems)