Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Karl Tatgenhorst wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
>      Thanks for asking. I had a critical application that depended on
> them until last week and am now happy to say that even they have moved
> on (I protested the small number of available ptys and explained the
> direction that Unix is going with Unix98 style ptys. Now I depend on
> those. I would be very interested in seeing what you do with your pty
> restructuring as I have a large amount of serial devices.
> 
> Karl Tatgenhorst
>

LOL :)

If the changes I'm working on work out you should be able to have
hundreds of thousands of ptys if you have enough memory.

	-hpa

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