On my reelbox (running Ubuntu) I have found a file in /etc/init that contains the following

```
# frontpanel-pre - check for frontpanel CAPs and adjust time
#

description     "check frontpanel caps"

#start on starting mountall
#start on tty-device-added DEVNAME=/dev/ttyS0

task

script
        (
        /sbin/dev_frontpanel.sh
        /sbin/reelfpctl -capability
        ) > /dev/.frontpanel.caps
        initctl emit --no-wait frontpanel-linked
end script

```

I wonder if the dot in **/dev/.frontpanel** has some special meaning in linux

I thought the output of the commands in the brackets will be written to a file called "**.frontpanel.caps**" in /dev/ but there is no such file.
In /dev/ there is a frontpanel which is a link to /dev/ttyS0

Could it be, that e.g. `echo something > /dev/.frontpanel.caps` actually sends data (something in this case) to **/dev/frontpanel** ?

What does `.caps` do then?