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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:34:11 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert behaviour of pty allocation in 2.6
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Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net> wrote:
>
> Here is a patch which is mainly 
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.5/2.6.5-mm5/broken-out/pty-allocation-first-fit.patch
> 
> with a couple of changes.
> 
> That patch didn't quite work....

aargh, that stoopid counter in the top eight bits of the idr_get_new return value :(.  Thanks.