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From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
To: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Increasing the pty limit
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I don't have sources to xterm, but you might look there and see how
it's finding pty's. Last time I poked at this stuff, the programs had
a loop to find an unused pty, and if xterm isn't looking beyond 16 of
them, that would cause the problem. Doesn't sound very likely to me,
though.

	<mike

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Brian W. Buchanan wrote:

> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:24:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Brian W. Buchanan <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Increasing the pty limit
> 
> I like to open lots of xterms, but I've found that once I have 16 ptys in
> use, I can't spawn any more.  I've rebuilt my kernel with:
> 
> pseudo-device	pty 32
> 
> And I know I have enough pty device entries in /dev, but I still run into
> the 16-pty limit. How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -- 
> Brian Buchanan                                     brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
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