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From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: joshk@triplehelix.org, midian@ihme.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.5 pts problem
Date: 19 Apr 2004 01:52:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082353929.850.126.camel@cube> (raw)

>> As you see, pts is just growing, not using the old used numbers.
>
> The implementation was changed intentionally to make
> it that way. The numbers will only be recycled once we
> go over the max number of psuedoterminals, I think..

You can also recycle the numbers by rebooting.
That's what I do. :-/

(I can't be spending 10% of my disk on a giant wtmp
file. Also, I use the tty names for xterm titles now.
If they get too big, the GNOME taskbar button titles
get truncated.)



             reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-19  5:52 Albert Cahalan [this message]
2004-04-19  9:13 ` 2.6.5 pts problem Jorge Bernal (Koke)
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-18 16:25 Markus Hästbacka
2004-04-18 21:48 ` Joshua Kwan

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