From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 20 14:13:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09114 for current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09108 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA16415 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:13:45 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id VAA07094; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 21:59:06 +0100 (BST) To: Paulo Menezes cc: current@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: out of ptys? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:17:55 BST." Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 21:59:05 +0100 Message-ID: <7092.835304345@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paulo Menezes wrote in message ID : > > In the LINT file it says that the maximum number of ptys is 64, but in It does? Whoops. I think the limit is actually 256 now (can someone confirm this?) > the telnetd sources it is limited to 32. Why? Is there any problem in > raising the telnetd limit to 64? I can't actually find this limit (not obviously anyhow). There is even a comment: /* * This stat() check is just to keep us from * looping through all 256 combinations if there * aren't that many ptys available. */ at line 522 in /usr/src/libexec/telnetd/sys_term.c ... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info