How to enable more than 256 pty's?

Vlad GALU dudu at dudu.ro
Tue Oct 2 05:37:31 PDT 2007


On 10/2/07, Vlad GALU <dudu at dudu.ro> wrote:
> 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:
> > > > Alternatively, set kern.pts.enable to 1, and find and fix the
> > > > hang-on-close bug in the pts code (if it hasn't been fixed already)
> > > Looks like it hasn't been. A friend who tried to set up an access
> > > server for his company stumbled upon it.
> >
> > kib@ says it has as of sys/kern/tty_pts.c rev 1.15 (2007-07-03).  Has
> > your friend tried with a sufficiently recent kernel?
>
>    I can't tell for sure, he tried a week or two ago, with a recent
> snapshot. I forwarded him your mail, I hope he'll retry and get back
> to me.
>

    The symptoms were exhibited even with rev. 1.16. I've CC'ed him so
he can catch up with the thread.


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