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Subject: Re: How to enable more than 256 pty's?
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"Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> writes:
> Thanks for the tip there but I cant find any function called pty_create_s=
lave
> in the source.

Just grep your source tree for occurrences of pqrsPQRS.

> Is this something that's possible on 5.x / 6.2 or something that will nee=
d a
> lot of work?

It shouldn't be any harder on 5.x / 6.x than on 7.x.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no