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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:37:41 -0700
From:      Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Raising PTYs
Message-ID:  <20001001153741.A89586@mushhaven.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001001172158.A19710@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20001001151030.A89252@mushhaven.net> <20001001172158.A19710@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 05:21:58PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> You're getting tripped up by the mass of inconsistencies that is
> MAKEDEV.  You need to run "./MAKEDEV pty0 pty1 pty2 pty3 pty4 pty5 pty6
> pty7" to create all 256 ptys.
> 
> When you ran MAKEDEV pty7, you created the last set of 32 ptys.  I
> think openpty() walks the list of ptys in sequential order, so when it
> couldn't find pty #33 it stopped, even though ptys #223-255 were
> available.

I did this, and still can't get past ttypv. :( Any other suggestions as to
what I can look for? Even tried a reboot after the MAKEDEV to no avail.

Jamie

> 
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> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@emsphone.com
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