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From: Mark Frazer <mark@somanetworks.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: more than 2048 unix98 ptys?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:06:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030219150600.A22255@somanetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1030219143104.10649A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:36:02PM -0500

Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> [03/02/19 14:38]:
> Read the comments in .../linux-n.n/include/linux/tty.h and then
> modify NR_PTYS accordingly. You need to add more majors as well.

I was hoping for something like the 32 bit dev_t that I've seen talked
about (but know very little about).  I need 16 or 32K ptys.  Getting that
many majors does not appear possible.

> Note that ptys are used for interactive terminals, you don't need
> one for every network connection. You may be adding something that
> you don't need and wasting kernel space.

It's for a PPP test client and we need a pty per session.

-- 
OK, but I don't want anyone thinking we're robosexuals. - Bender

      reply	other threads:[~2003-02-19 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-19 19:15 Mark Frazer
2003-02-19 19:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-02-19 20:06   ` Mark Frazer [this message]

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