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From: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.5 pts problem
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:48:51 -0700
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:25:40 +0300, Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> midian   pts/93   :0.0             19:24    0.00s  0.00s  0.00s w
>              ^^
> As you see, pts is just growing, not using the old used numbers.

The implementation was changed intentionally to make it that way. The
numbers will only be recycled once we go over the max number of
psuedoterminals, I think..

-- 
Joshua Kwan