Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!news.flint.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!ui-gate.utell.co.uk!brian
From: brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I need MORE than 120 ptys........please help
Date: 19 Feb 1997 17:58:06 GMT
Organization: Utell International
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <5efeve$gjp@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>
References: <3309E9A0.938@sticky.usu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ui-gate.utell.net
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35779
Hal Lynch (hal@sticky.usu.edu) wrote:
[.....]
: Here is what I suspect:
: Could the limit really be 128 ptys?
[.....]
Kind of. Because of the funny naming of ptys, some apps can use
the second "set" of 128, and some can't - therefore the limit is
either 128 or 256 depending on the app. I got this info from
/dev/MAKEDEV.... but that's about all I know about it.
Good luck !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@utell.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !