How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0?

[Max Laier]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 13:25:39 Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:10:03AM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > * Paul Schenkeveld <fb-hackers at psconsult.nl> wrote:
> > > Or change 'pts' to, for example, 'pt' so without changing utmp and
> > > related stuff we'll have space for a four digit pty number.
> >
> > I've noticed lots of apps already misbehave because of the pty(4) ->
> > pts(4) migration. I guess using a new naming scheme would totally break
> > stuff. There are lots of apps that do things like:
> >
> > 	if (strncmp(tty, "tty", 3) != 0 && strncmp(tty, "pts/", 4) != 0)
> > 		printf("Not a valid pseudo-terminal!\n");
> >
> > But those are just workarounds. Our utmp format is broken anyway. It's
> > not just UT_LINESIZE that's too small. I think we received many
> > complaints from people who want to increase UT_HOSTSIZE as well.
>
> Well, UT_HOSTSIZE can't hold a full sized IPv6 address.

RFC 1924 (still needs four more, but avoids ridiculously large UT_HOSTSIZE ;)

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