From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 01:10:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA24288 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from wormhole (root@wormhole.map.com [204.71.19.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA24283 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:10:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 02 Jan 96 08:33:14 EST From: jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts) Reply-To: jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts) To: huck@slartibartfast.nosc.mil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Roland Roberts's PMMail v1.1 Subject: Re: pty limit of 64 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Dec 1995 12:14:15 -0500 (EST) you wrote: > The LINT kernel config file lists a limit of 64 ptys, but the > MAKEDEV scripts show that you can make a whole lot more devices > than that, up to 256 if I remember correctly. To increase the number, I believe you just need to increase the limit in your kernel config and re-make the kernel, then make sure sufficient devices exist (using MAKEDEV). // ------------------------------------- | |\ _,,,---,,_ // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - | ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ // Internet: jay@map.com | |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5 | '---''(_/--' `-'\_)