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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: pts bug? and keyboard on kvm
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:02:36 +0000 (UTC)
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By author:    Edmund Lau <edlau@ucf.ics.uci.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I just upgraded to 2.6.4.  Is it normal for /dev/pts numbers to keep
> increasing now?  With 2.6.3, I could log in or create an xterm and a pts
> would be assigned.  Then when it was released, another process could reuse
> that number.  Now, it seems it just keeps incrementing.  Has this changed?
> 

Yes.  We may make a slight change to this, due to the incredibly
braindamaged way glibc and xterm handles utmp, however.

	-hpa