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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 22:34:24 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Mark Livingstone <mlivingstone@ottawa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: increasing # of PTYs?!?!
Message-ID:  <20010514223424.A35811@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20010514155305.A6472@tmd.df.ru>; from mlivingstone@ottawa.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:53:06PM -0400
References:  <20010514155305.A6472@tmd.df.ru>

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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:53:06PM -0400, Mark Livingstone wrote:
> Cheers! I am running into a problem: i have recompiled my kernel with 256 PTYs, however, after the reboot.. it still 
> tells me that im running out of them even though im using only 20 or so. what should i do? should i MAKDEV those 256 
> ptys or what?

MAKEDEV sounds like a good idea, yes.

> 
> that's what i have:
> 
> root@ml:/dev>>ls pty*                                                               
> ptyp0   ptyp3   ptyp6   ptyp9   ptypc   ptypf   ptypi   ptypl   ptypo   ptypr   ptypu
> ptyp1   ptyp4   ptyp7   ptypa   ptypd   ptypg   ptypj   ptypm   ptypp   ptyps   ptypv
> ptyp2   ptyp5   ptyp8   ptypb   ptype   ptyph   ptypk   ptypn   ptypq   ptypt
> root@ml:/dev>>                                                                      
> 
> i can't figure out how to create more :(

cd /dev
./MAKEDEV pty0 pty1 pty2 pty3 pty4 pty5 pty6 pty7


The above should create a total of 256 pty entries in /dev

> 
> anyone can help? thanks in advance!
> 
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