How to enable more than 256 pty's?

[Vlad GALU]

On 10/2/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> "Vlad GALU" <dudu at dudu.ro> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > > "Vlad GALU" <dudu at dudu.ro> writes:
> > > > The symptoms were exhibited even with rev. 1.16. I've CC'ed him so
> > > > he can catch up with the thread.
> > > Which symptoms?  I can no longer reproduce the hang-on-close bug.
> > Strangely enough, me neither. In his case, allocated pts' wouldn't get
> > deallocated once the sessions ended.
>
> Wouldn't get deallocated right away, or wouldn't get deallocated at all?
> Apparently, it is not unusual for pts reclamation to be delayed a bit by
> a non-zero refcnt.
>

   As per my other mail, they wouldn't get deallocated at all. They
still show up in /dev/pts/ even after closing, and the next integer
index is picked up upon the next terminal creation.


> DES
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> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
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