Jarry writes:

> I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev:
> 
> obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l
> 256
> obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l
> 325
> 
> They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then
> pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought
> udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm
> surprised to see so much of them...

Seems to be normal, I get the same output on two of my Gentoo machines.

        Wonko

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