On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:05:03PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Steven Hartland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Any one got any pointers on this, the machine we running this app on is over
> > 90% idle so I really don't want to have to install a second machine just to
> > workaround a limit on the number of pty's, surely there's a way to increase
> > this?
>
> You need to change the way ptys are named in pty_create_slave() and
> pty_clone() in sys/kern/tty_pty.c. Just changing names won't help as
> the sequence is also hardcoded in pty_clone().
>
> You also need to change grantpt(), openpty() and any other userland code
> which has hardcoded knowledge of the naming scheme:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~% gfs pqrsPQRS
> src/sys/kern/tty_pty.c: static char *names = "pqrsPQRS";
> src/sys/kern/tty_pty.c: * pts ==
> /dev/tty[pqrsPQRS][0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv]
> src/sys/kern/tty_pty.c: * ptc ==
> /dev/pty[pqrsPQRS][0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv]
> src/contrib/telnet/telnetd/sys_term.c: for (cp = "pqrsPQRS"; *cp; cp++) {
> src/usr.sbin/ac/ac.c: strchr("pqrsPQRS",
> usr.ut_line[3]) != 0 ||
> src/lib/libutil/pty.c: for (cp1 = "pqrsPQRS"; *cp1; cp1++) {
> src/lib/libc/stdlib/grantpt.c: #define PT_DEV1 "pqrsPQRS"
>
> Alternatively, set kern.pts.enable to 1, and find and fix the
> hang-on-close bug in the pts code (if it hasn't been fixed already)
This last option is only available if you are running 7-CURRENT though.
The pts code is not in 6-STABLE (or older.)
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Erik Trulsson
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