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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: How to add more pty entries for terminal
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.040743.14840@ni.umd.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 04:07:43 GMT
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- In article <BtLtnL.L6x@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
- >How do I add more pty/tty entries so that Terminal and Stuart (and any
- >other terminal applications) can open more windows. I've tried using the
- >MAKEDEVS script to actually make the devices, but when I reboot the
- >machine the terminal applications still stop making terminal windows after
- >ttyqf.
-
- You cannot. The pty kernel device driver is configured for 32
- devices, and it does not dynamically allocate its data structures. To
- see the gory details, look at the BSD pty driver, available on UUNET,
- etc. The NeXT's pty driver seems to be essentially unchanged in
- architecture.
-
- I would tell you that I think the number of ptys has been increased in
- 3.0, but that would probably violate some beta test agreement.
-
- louie
-