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Subjectsomething funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1

Hi all,

I just took 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 for a spin, and there's definitely something
funny about tty's. I left the computer unattended and had visitors over,
among them small children who, apparently, decided I needed 350 aterm's
open ;-). So, after they left I issued a 'killall -9 aterm' and fired up
a new one, and here's something definitely interesting:

nuno@hobbes:~$ w
18:33:56 up 4:08, 157 users, load average: 0.03, 0.89, 1.51
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
nuno :0 14:26 ?xdm? 3:55 0.95s gnome-session
nuno pts/358 18:30 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s w


I know for a fact that I don't have 157 logged in users (well, there's
only 45 processes running right now), and shouldn't pts' be recycled, and
a lower number be assigned? The last kernel I ran was 2.6.3, and none of
this happened.

My config is:

CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=512

and this is a plain jane static /dev -- not devfs nor udev. Despite the
supposedly 157 users logged in, /dev/pts only contains '358', which is
the one allocated to this instance of aterm right now.

nuno@hobbes:~$ ls -l /dev/pts
total 0
crw--w---- 1 nuno users 136, 102 Mar 1 18:41 358

In the mean time I'll fall back to 2.6.3.


Regards,


Nuno

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