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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: How to enable more than 256 pty's?
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"Vlad GALU" <dudu@dudu.ro> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > "Vlad GALU" <dudu@dudu.ro> writes:
> > > The symptoms were exhibited even with rev. 1.16. I've CC'ed him so
> > > he can catch up with the thread.
> > Which symptoms?  I can no longer reproduce the hang-on-close bug.
> Strangely enough, me neither. In his case, allocated pts' wouldn't get
> deallocated once the sessions ended.

Wouldn't get deallocated right away, or wouldn't get deallocated at all?
Apparently, it is not unusual for pts reclamation to be delayed a bit by
a non-zero refcnt.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no