From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 21 20:24:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13781 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 20:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13710 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 20:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11540; Thu, 21 May 1998 23:20:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199805220320.XAA11540@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: minimum pty's=2 ???? In-Reply-To: <199805212220.RAA01871@sebastion.mfn.org> from Restricted Use Test Acct at "May 21, 98 05:20:54 pm" To: measl@mfn.org (Restricted Use Test Acct) Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 23:20:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Restricted Use Test Acct wrote: > OK. Why? When I try to allow just 1, I get a warning that I > have only defined a single pty, followed by a notice that this > "error" is being happily corrected - to 32!!! > > Is there a reason for this behaviour? > Yup. pty's come in small flocks. Accept it. It only eats a few inodes for the /dev/[pt]tyXX pairs. Pty's are just software constructs. (Man 4 pty) for more info. Dave -- Unix System 7: an improvement on all other Unix releases, previous and subsequent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message