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/dev/pts filesystem (experimental)
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS
If you say Y here, you'll get a virtual filesystem which can be
mounted on /dev/pts with "mount -t devpts". This, together with the
pseudo terminal master multiplexer /dev/ptmx is used for pseudo
terminal support as described in the Open Group's Unix98 standard:
in order to acquire a pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx;
the number of the pseudo terminal is then made available to the
process and the pseudo terminal slave can be accessed as
/dev/pts/<number>. What was traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be
/dev/pts/2, for example. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 contains the
requisite support for this mode of operation.
This code is also available as a module called devpts.o ( = code
which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel
whenever you want). If you want to compile it as a module, say M
here and read Documentation/modules.txt.
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Wouldn't this let you have more than 256 terminals open? Or is it limited
just like the regular terminals are? Also, is there a place to find more
information on how to use it?
I don't have a need for that many open at once (right now), but obviously
others do.
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