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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:01:39 +0100
From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>
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Subject: Re: More than 256 pty's
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On 17 Feb 2001 17:49:10 +0100
Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@poboxes.com> wrote:

	Seems to take it up to 704 ptys (now try explaining quickly how *that*
number comes up). Don't you also need to disable the test in ptsopen() on
line 189 of kern/tty_pty.c ? viz:
-----
   if (minr < 255) {
      nextdev = makedev(major(dev), minr + 1);
      if (!nextdev->si_drv1) {
         ptyinit(minr + 1);
      }
   }
-----

	I was contemplating something with a /dev/pty/* and /dev/tty/* and
a really mindless naming convention that wouldn't ever bottom out. I hadn't
even started working on it.


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