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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:32:41 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:

>>Plus I have 64 tty devices. Couldn't the tty devices be created
>>dynamically as they are consumed? Same for the loop and ram devices?
> 
> 
> You do realise that the dynamic device creation for those 64 console
> devices is done via the console device being _opened_ by userspace?
> 
Which userspace program is opening 64 console devices? Surely it could 
be taught to use a smaller number. If you mean that open the console 
once creates all those devices, I think that's exactly what Jon was 
suggesting is not desirable (I agree).

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