Yeah, mandrakes been running devfs for a while now.

[dantheperson@danski JEmplode_2.0]$ ls -l /dev/tts/0
crwxrwxrwx 1 danthepe tty 4, 64 Jan 31 00:16 /dev/tts/0

(yes i've been playing with the permissions.)
Everyone has read write but root can't see it... odd.