In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, since some days ago, I've noticed that pts devices are not being >reused. I mean, the usual behavior was: open a xterm, which gets e.g. >pts/7, close it, open another one, which will get pts/7 again. Now it'd >get pts/8, and then pts/9, and so on. Not that I care *that* much but I >just prefer the old behavior, where pts get recycled. > >Has anybody here heard of something similar? I've searched the archives >and googled around but I couldn't find a thing.
It's a feature of the 2.6 kernel. Not much you can do about it except going back to 2.4 (or hacking the kernel yourself). >[Please CC me on replies, M-F-T set accordingly.] Sorry, reading this (and replying) through a usenet gateway. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]