From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 17 09:49:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA18336 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:49:40 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA18328 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:49:33 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA05744; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:38:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511171738.KAA05744@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: pty To: didier@omnix.fr.org (Didier Derny) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:38:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Didier Derny" at Nov 17, 95 10:19:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 484 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I must be able to receive up to 256 simultaneous connexions on the same > machine. Yeah. You need a cloning driver so that you can have as many pty's as will fit into memory. The size limit you have now is based on the static name range for pty allocation. And that's being limited by the hard coded search order more than anything else. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.