From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 22:22:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA14384 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:22:31 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA14360 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:22:27 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01142; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 07:22:24 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA03103; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 06:23:23 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA19859; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:14:04 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508232114.XAA19859@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Number of ptys in 205 - Any limits ? To: rashid@haven.ios.com (Rashid Karimov.) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:14:04 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508232011.QAA13040@haven.ios.com> from "Rashid Karimov." at Aug 23, 95 04:11:59 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 467 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Rashid Karimov. wrote: > > Are there any restrictions on the amount of ptys available to the > users ? I think the number of available letter to name them is the biggest restriction. It's not as easy to add more letters to MAKEDEV, since most programs have a hardcoded idea which letters to use for naming ptys. :( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)