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Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 04:14:42 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Steve Young <sdyoung@vt220.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] change pts allocation behaviour in
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Steve Young <sdyoung@vt220.org> wrote:
>
>   Here is a patch to change the way ptses are allocated.  It applies against
>  2.6.6-rc3.  Basically it tries to humour old glibc by always obtaining a pts
>  in the range of 0-255 first.  However, if that fails, then it will search the
>  higher ranges. 

Wouldn't we be better off with plain old first-fit-from-zero?