Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:11:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: UNIX98 style pty Message-ID: <19990602181148.A89180@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990602113614.10100D-100000@crb.crb-web.com>; from "Wayne Cuddy" on Wed Jun 2 11:39:08 GMT 1999 References: <19990602103753.A28696@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.990602113614.10100D-100000@crb.crb-web.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 02), Wayne Cuddy said: > Ok, maybe it is not a UNIX98 thing. What I am looking for is more > than 256 ptys. I would prefer the behavior that dynamically > allocates ptys in /dev/pty/ at run-time. The latest linux kernel has > this behavior. You can have more than 256 ptys; the problem is what to name them. You can easily get 384 ptys by extending the current scheme slightly (using /dev/tty[tuTU]*; /dev/ttyv* is syscons so we hit our limit with this naming scheme). Edit /dev/MAKEDEV and /usr/src/lib/libutil/pty.c. Actually, you could edit them to populate /dev/pty/* if you really want. Leave symlinks from /dev/tty[pqrsPSRQ]* to /dev/pty/* for legacy apps that don't use openpty(). -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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