Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:56:12 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: >256 ptys (previous subject line was garbage) |
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Peter Svensson writes: > On Sun, 31 May 1998, Roderich Schupp wrote: > > > Given this restriction your only chance to have more than 256 ptys > > is to hack the driver source to allocate another major device number > > for the next 256 ptys etc. BTW what are you really trying to achieve? > > Do you really need >256 user terminal sessions? Maybe there's > > another way to solve your original problem? > > Isn't the devfs supposed to allow major/minor-less devices? I seem to > recall that for some devices major/minor number were used anywas since > userland code used it (mounted filesystems e.g.). For ptys this should be > no problem.
Devfs does allows major/minor-less devices. You could hack the tty driver to make use of this. Check out the devfs FAQ at: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/devfs.txt
Regards,
Richard....
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