Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:59:26 -0500 (EST) From: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> To: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) Cc: huck@slartibartfast.nosc.mil, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pty limit of 64 Message-ID: <199512291959.OAA10977@rk.ios.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.91.951229130434.28236D-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net> from "steve hovey" at Dec 29, 95 01:05:43 pm
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Hi there folx, > > On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Craig Huckabee wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way to increase the number of ptys beyond 64? > > Id like to know this too - if you try for more than 64 and recmopile the > kernal you get a warning - is there something someplace which uses only > so many bits thus capping it at 64? Not sure for the earlier versions , but at least starting with 205 one can safely ignore this warning - system does perfectly work with more that 64 ptys - personally I have 256 of 'em on most systems - works fine.. The other Q is that probably some application will not go so far searching for the next available pty master - the old screen was an example - but it pretty easy to fix in any given case( they usually define kinda static char array with first letters for the ptys). The other solution could be clone device - but this will kill even more applications - all those with #ifdef BSD work exclusively via old mechanism and it's not the SVR4 based one :( Rashid
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