From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to increase UNIX98 pty number?
Date: 2 Apr 2002 15:33:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8df51$jjo$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF391D2B4A.E68BC179-ON86256B8E.005D10CA@3com.com>
Followup to: <OF391D2B4A.E68BC179-ON86256B8E.005D10CA@3com.com>
By author: Hui_Ning@3com.com
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> hi,
>
> Where should I change to increase the UNIX98 pty number beyond 2048? The
> maximum allowed in xconfig is 2048.
> Is there any reason that this number can't go beyond 2048? Thanks,
>
Yes, dev_t is too small.
You could hack the kernel to locally allocate additional major
numbers, preferrably in the 240-255 range, if you need it.
-hpa
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2002-04-01 17:03 how to increase UNIX98 pty number? Hui_Ning
2002-04-02 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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