From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 15:17:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21204 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:17:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21199 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA14324; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:17:04 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.7.3/8.6.5) with SMTP id PAA02889; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:17:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199512292317.PAA02889@corbin.Root.COM> To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: steve hovey , Craig Huckabee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pty limit of 64 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Dec 95 15:52:39 EST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:17:07 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >> As for ptys, 32 units are fully supported for each of ttyp, q, r, and s, >>and if you're not using xterms, another 32 ptys each are supported for P, Q, R, >> and S...for a total of 256 ptys. >> > Okay, simple question...is there a way of telling xterms to use >particular ptys, namely those in the ttyP+ range? Freeing up the 128 from >p-s? The problem is that xterm as written does not know about P-S. It only knows about p-s. There's no way to work around this except by modifying the xterm source to teach it about P-S. > Since, from your statement above, I assume that P-S are not available >for such things as telnet/rlogin/etc? Just the other way around - P-S can only be used for telnet/rlogin/etc; they can't be used for xterms. If you're not using xterms, then you need not worry. :-) -DG