Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:08:35 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0? Message-ID: <20090401210835.GP13393@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090401205703.GX31897@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <A48E38AADF784030A7496551F1416A3B@multiplay.co.uk> <20090401205306.GO13393@hoeg.nl> <20090401205703.GX31897@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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--STPqjqpCrtky8aYs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Kostik, * Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > Can we switch to %x ? Or even, use some radix encoding of the number, > to allow alphabetical symbols too ? I guess that would break a lot of existing libraries. For example: older RELENG_7/CURRENT libcs might still use TIOCGPTN. This ioctl just returns a number that is just printed into a device name using "/dev/pts/%u" as a format. I also suspect a lot of Linux/Solaris-minded software expects the names to be in decimal form. I also thought about that, but the risks are probably too high. I think it's better to just redesign our utmp/wtmp/lastlog system. I guess we could do something like this: - Implement utmpx. At first utmpx should just be a set of wrappers around utmp/wtmp/lastlog. - Migrate all applications to utmpx. - Change the utmpx code to use some new fancy file format. I think I can finish the first step before 8.0 if I start working on this one of these weeks. --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --STPqjqpCrtky8aYs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknT19MACgkQ52SDGA2eCwUQBgCfWThoNf4HrM/Rh0GBCyNVPKR2 AYoAn2zTnithkWAZ0Me5LSGGpGh7tBxu =p8x/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --STPqjqpCrtky8aYs--
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