From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 31 23:58:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09127 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (lal-99-91.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.99.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09121 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA01523; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: Mike Meyer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the pty limit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: > I don't have sources to xterm, but you might look there and see how > it's finding pty's. Last time I poked at this stuff, the programs had > a loop to find an unused pty, and if xterm isn't looking beyond 16 of > them, that would cause the problem. Doesn't sound very likely to me, > though. When I said xterm, I was using it as a generic term -- I actually use a mix of Eterm and kvt. This limit also seems to sometimes affect man (I get "cannot fork"), and sometimes not. -- Brian Buchanan brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org daemon(n): 1. an attendant power or spirit : GENIUS 2. the cute little mascot of the FreeBSD operating system To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message