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

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Wed Apr 1 14:17:36 PDT 2009


* Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> wrote:
> I also thought about that, but the risks are probably too high. I think
> it's better to just redesign our utmp/wtmp/lastlog system. I guess we
> could do something like this:

I forgot one step:

> - Implement utmpx. At first utmpx should just be a set of wrappers
>   around utmp/wtmp/lastlog.
> - Migrate all applications to utmpx.

- Remove ttyslot() and <utmp.h>.

> - Change the utmpx code to use some new fancy file format.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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