How to enable more than 256 pty's?

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Mon Oct 1 02:02:40 PDT 2007


Is it really a matter of editing:
/usr/src/sys/kern/tty_pty.c

And changing:
static char *names = "pqrsPQRS";

To increase the number of available pty's ( FreeBSD 5.4 ) or is there
a nicer way?

    Regards
    Steve

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