problem with devfs

[Igor Robul]

shmach at osprey.net wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>I'm a CS student, and this previous semester I took a unix class where our
>teacher gave us some code for an assignment, with the goal being to compile and
>install it.  The jist of it was the program created a device in /dev called
>voice, which would "speak" whatever was written to it using festival. I
>thought this was kinda spiffy, and tried to install it on my system at home,
>freebsd 5.3.  The program tries to write to /dev, and because 5.3
>uses devfs, /dev is read only, so it obviously fails. I thought that maybe using
>mknod would allow me to create a device, but the man page for mknod states that
>it can "be used to recreate deleted device nodes under a devfs(5) mount point by
>invoking it using dummy arguments", but that doesn't really help me here as the
>device node never existed in the first place.  
>  
>
You can make device node or fifo not in /dev but in any other directory 
(for example in /tmp) and change path in your file.