On Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:50:24 -0400, "Ted Unangst" wrote:

> Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2016-06-30, Oriol Demaria <sysad...@the-grid.xyz> wrote:
> > > Trying tmuxinator here I have noticed that I ran out of pty, according
> > > to man pty(4) there is a kernel parameter specifiying the max
> > > number. I'm running a snapshot from last Friday, and I don't seem to
> > > have kern.tty.maxptys.
> > 
> > You probably just ran out of device nodes, the default (62) is a bit small
> > for some uses (often exhibited as not being able to open new xterms), but y
> ou
> > can create more like this:
> > 
> > cd /dev
> > sh MAKEDEV pty1
> 
> This shouldn't be a problem for software using openpty().

I don't think that is correct.  You still need to device nodes in
/dev to exist.  Otherwise, the PTMGET ioctl will fail.

 - todd

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