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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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* Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> wrote:
> Probably historical reasons. It's very much possible to change it
> though.  We've defined it to 64 since FreeBSD 2.05 and never really had
> any trouble.

When increasing it, we shouldn't forget to increase UT_LINESIZE to 16 as
well.  Using the UNIX 98 PTY naming, we can't go beyond pts/999, because
it is eight bytes, including the null byte.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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