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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:22:06 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Raising PTYs
Message-ID:  <20001001182206.A29947@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001001153741.A89586@mushhaven.net>; from "Jamie Norwood" on Sun Oct  1 15:37:41 GMT 2000
References:  <20001001151030.A89252@mushhaven.net> <20001001172158.A19710@dan.emsphone.com> <20001001153741.A89586@mushhaven.net>

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In the last episode (Oct 01), Jamie Norwood said:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 05:21:58PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > You're getting tripped up by the mass of inconsistencies that is
> > MAKEDEV.  You need to run "./MAKEDEV pty0 pty1 pty2 pty3 pty4 pty5
> > pty6 pty7" to create all 256 ptys.
> > 
> > When you ran MAKEDEV pty7, you created the last set of 32 ptys.  I
> > think openpty() walks the list of ptys in sequential order, so when
> > it couldn't find pty #33 it stopped, even though ptys #223-255 were
> > available.
> 
> I did this, and still can't get past ttypv. :( Any other suggestions
> as to what I can look for? Even tried a reboot after the MAKEDEV to
> no avail.

Do the ptys exist in /dev?  Are they in /etc/ttys?  Exactly what error
message are you getting?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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