Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:06:00 -0500 | From | Mark Frazer <> | Subject | Re: more than 2048 unix98 ptys? |
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Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> [03/02/19 14:38]: > Read the comments in .../linux-n.n/include/linux/tty.h and then > modify NR_PTYS accordingly. You need to add more majors as well.
I was hoping for something like the 32 bit dev_t that I've seen talked about (but know very little about). I need 16 or 32K ptys. Getting that many majors does not appear possible.
> Note that ptys are used for interactive terminals, you don't need > one for every network connection. You may be adding something that > you don't need and wasting kernel space.
It's for a PPP test client and we need a pty per session.
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