Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Oh, and I always thought PTYs were moved to free up more minors for our
zillions of serial ports...
No, PTYs were moved because 64 ptys were woefully inadequate. 256 ptys
were enough of a shortage for many users.
The use of 16-bit Minix device numbers was a major headache in Linux for
many, many years. We didn't get past that one until the 2.6 kernel series.
-hpa
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