Re: [PATCH] char/tty_io: fix legacy pty name when more than 256 ptydevices are requested

[Alan Cox]

> * The remaining nibbles are represented by one of 0123456789abcdef letters,
>   indicating the 1st through 16th nibble value, starting from the most
>   significative nibble to the least significative nibble, excluding the
>   second nibble (that were already represented).

This is a real step back.

It now wastes all the tty[e-p]%d namespace. ttyp%d for > 255 at least
only uses one for this irrelevant area.

I actually have another proposal having reviewed the user space code.

Limit the BSD ptys to 256. Nothing uses them, the C library routines for
their allocation would need glibc modifying (which takes about five years
for a tty change it seems anyway). It's basically a huge amount of work
for no purpose at all.

So lets limit BSD ptys (unused anyway) to 256 and be done with it.


Alan
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