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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:06:05 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tty/pty devices not safe in jail? 
Message-ID:  <98820.1037217965@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:01:08 PST." <200211132001.gADK188f001694@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <200211132001.gADK188f001694@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w
rites:

>    Would people be interested if I added such a feature?  Limit the
>    highest allocatable pty to 90% when operating within a jail?

In practice there is no real "upper limit" on ptys, apart from the
amount of KVM you need.

I don't really think running out of ptys is a problem compared to
other resource limitations (number of processes etc etc).

-- 
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phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
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