Why is Multipath creating .pp_balance devnode device files in /tmp on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5?

Solution Verified - Updated 2013-04-04T10:00:15+00:00 -

Issue

Multipath is creating .pp_balance devnode device files in /tmp for HITACHI Storage.

device-mapper-multipath using the prio_callout line:

prio_callout            "/sbin/mpath_prio_hds_modular %d"

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