Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261466AbUKIJnE (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 04:43:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261456AbUKIJlp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 04:41:45 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:41697 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261461AbUKIJjw (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 04:39:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:39:13 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: arjan@infradead.org, olivier@pas-tres.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, diffie@blazebox.homeip.net, greg@kroah.com, diffie@gmail.com Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Message-Id: <20041109013913.021d63d6.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041109103733.GA15065@elte.hu> References: <9dda349204110611043e093bca@mail.gmail.com> <20041107024841.402c16ed.akpm@osdl.org> <20041108075934.GA4602@elte.hu> <20041107234225.02c2f9b6.akpm@osdl.org> <20041108224259.GA14506@kroah.com> <20041108212747.33b6e14a.akpm@osdl.org> <792238A4-3224-11D9-9F1E-000D934362B4@pas-tres.net> <1099988562.3989.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.org> <20041109103733.GA15065@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1084 Lines: 26 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 08:53 +0100, Olivier Poitrey wrote: > > > On 9 nov. 04, at 06:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > [...] Is there a requirement to support more than 256 legacy ptys? > > > > > > Yes it is. For big vserver hosting systems for instance, running like > > > 100 vservers per node you can easily hit this limit. > > > > but do you really need the legacy pty's for that instead of the > > "modern" ones ? > > probably not, but if the fix is easy then there's no reason not to do > it. We'd have to cook up a new naming scheme for them. And hotplug scripts to create the device nodes. Except hotplug probably isn't running correctly at that time. My RH system here only comes with 256 /dev/pty* device nodes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/