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Re: tty->count ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Jul 3 19:44:49 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9607031957.AA27889@dcl.MIT.EDU>
On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> You don't have to remake your device entries unless you want more than
> 64 ptys. The reason for moving the ptys to their own major numbers was
> to lift the 64 pty limitation. There is compatibility code to support
> pty's located at the old device numbers, but the compatibility code
> requires that you either use the new pty device numbers or the old
> ones. You can't mix and match...
Has anyone released a new NetKit or patches to make in.telnetd and
in.rlogind and friends aware of the new names? I found and used a patch
for 1.2.x about a year ago that provided 256 pty's, but the naming was up
in the air, and many programs had to be recompiled to know about the new
ptys.
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