From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 15 12:33:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA21631 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:33:34 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA21609 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:33:32 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA19707 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:33:08 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA23156; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:24 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA03857; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA08239; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:19:27 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511152019.VAA08239@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pty To: didier@omnix.fr.org (Didier Derny) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:19:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Didier Derny" at Nov 15, 95 04:17:53 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 364 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Didier Derny wrote: > > Is there any possibility to have more than 256 ptys ? > Is there any trick to find the next available pty without having to > try them all ? Implement a cloning pty driver. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)