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Date:      Mon, 3 Jun 1996 06:22:02 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        gpalmer@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PR conf/1270
Message-ID:  <199606022022.GAA05589@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Anyone know why the patch in the PR SHOULDN'T be applied? (apart from
>the fact it makes /etc/ttys massive :-/ ) Perhaps the first 128 pty's
>should be defined, leaving a note that you have to define the others
>if you want to have more?

It should probably be applied (after testing :-) to -stable, but for
-current someone should work on how this is going to work with devfs
when there will be an unlimited number of ptys.

Each additional statically configured pty currently costs 252 bytes
for the tty struct alone, not about 128 bits as guessed in the PR.
A default of 32 would still be reasonable.

Bruce



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