MAKEDEV.local —
create site-specific device special files
  
    | MAKEDEV.local | [ -fMsu] [-mmknod] [-ppax] [-tmtree] {all |
      site-specific-argument}
      [...] | 
MAKEDEV.local is used to create site-specific device
  special files. Each argument may be the word all or a
  site-specific argument. By default, there are no valid site-specific
  arguments, and the all argument has no effect; This
  may be changed by editing the script.
The script is in /dev/MAKEDEV.local.
    Devices are created in the current working directory; in normal use,
    MAKEDEV.local should be invoked with
    /dev as the current working directory.
Supported options for MAKEDEV.local are
    the same as for
  MAKEDEV(8).
  - /dev
- special device files directory
- /dev/MAKEDEV
- script that invokes MAKEDEV.localwith the
      all argument.
- /dev/MAKEDEV.local
- script described in this man page
TheMAKEDEV.local command appeared in
  4.2BSD. Handling of the same command line options as
  MAKEDEV(8), and the use of
  MAKEDEV(8) as a function
  library, was added in NetBSD 5.0.
The relationship between MAKEDEV.local and
  MAKEDEV(8) is complex:
  - If MAKEDEV(8) is invoked
      with the all or local
      argument, then it will invoke MAKEDEV.localas a
      child process, with options similar to those that were originally passed
      to MAKEDEV(8), and with the
      all argument.
- MAKEDEV.localuses shell functions defined in
      MAKEDEV(8). This is done by
      loading MAKEDEV(8) using
      the shell “.” command, with the- MAKEDEV_AS_LIBRARYvariable set (to inform
      MAKEDEV(8) that it should
      behave as a function library, not as an independent program).