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From: Mark Frazer <mark@somanetworks.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: more than 2048 unix98 ptys?
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Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> [03/02/19 14:38]:
> Read the comments in .../linux-n.n/include/linux/tty.h and then
> modify NR_PTYS accordingly. You need to add more majors as well.

I was hoping for something like the 32 bit dev_t that I've seen talked
about (but know very little about).  I need 16 or 32K ptys.  Getting that
many majors does not appear possible.

> Note that ptys are used for interactive terminals, you don't need
> one for every network connection. You may be adding something that
> you don't need and wasting kernel space.

It's for a PPP test client and we need a pty per session.

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