Possibly silly question about creating entries in /dev

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <3E9DB047.50202 at sfmidimafia.com>, "Scott R." writes:
>This may be a stupid question, but hopefully it is easily answerable. 
>I've done some poking around on the man page for devfs and I can't 
>really find anything that tells me how to create a "fictitious" entry. 
>Some apps that play or read cd's need the device /dev/cdrom to exist for 
>them to work.  I can create a link manually just using ln -sf /dev/acd0 
>/dev/cdrom and the entry will stay there until I reboot the machine. 
>Upon reboot, the entry is wiped out as devfs re-initializes itself (this 
>is my guess anyway).  Can anyone tell me how to properly create these 
>types of device entries so that they are recreated each time the system 
>boots?  There's either not much documentation on this subject or I'm 
>just not looking in the right place.  Pointers and suggestions will be 
>greatly appreciated.

I belive /etc/rc.devfs was meant for this sort of stuff, but I am
not sure I know if this is still politically correct in RCng days.

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