From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 16 01:18:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA19220 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 01:18:47 -0800 Received: from pancake.remcomp.fr (root@pancake.remcomp.fr [194.51.30.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA19186 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 01:18:30 -0800 Received: from zapata.omnix.fr.org by zapata.omnix.fr.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA25925; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:41:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:41:08 +0100 (MET) From: Didier Derny To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pty In-Reply-To: <199511152019.VAA08239@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > 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. > In fact I have to control 32 pty with the same process. It might be more interesting for me to write a driver to multiplex 32 slaves on only one master. > -- > 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. ;-) > +---------------------+ | Didier Derny | | didier@omnix.fr.org | +---------------------+