Christoph Badura wrote:
> Is there any reason why this isn't dealt with through MAKEDEV?
> I thought the whole idea about moving /dev/log to /var/run was to
> make it possible for /dev being on a read-only file system.

It still can be, when /dev/log is symlink to /var/run/log. It's needed
to provide binary compatibility.

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