Re: >256 ptys (previous subject line was garbage)
Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:56:12 +1000
Peter Svensson writes:
> On Sun, 31 May 1998, Roderich Schupp wrote:
>
> > Given this restriction your only chance to have more than 256 ptys
> > is to hack the driver source to allocate another major device number
> > for the next 256 ptys etc. BTW what are you really trying to achieve?
> > Do you really need >256 user terminal sessions? Maybe there's
> > another way to solve your original problem?
>
> Isn't the devfs supposed to allow major/minor-less devices? I seem to
> recall that for some devices major/minor number were used anywas since
> userland code used it (mounted filesystems e.g.). For ptys this should be
> no problem.
Devfs does allows major/minor-less devices. You could hack the tty
driver to make use of this. Check out the devfs FAQ at:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/devfs.txt
Regards,
Richard....
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