David,
/dev/pty devices are made with /dev/MAKEDEV
If you need more than the stock 256, you could probably hack
MAKEDEV up to suit your needs.
Rick
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We are running some expect scripts that spawn a large number of processes.
> Because of this we are running out of ptys. How do I increase the number
> of ptys available? I saw a MAX_NUMBER_CONSOLES in tty.h that was set to 63.
> Is it as simple as changing this to a large number (512?) and recompiling the
> kernel?
>
> Thanks
>
> David Fried
> Associate Staff
> MIT Lincoln Laboratory
> Lexington, MA
>
>
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