On Monday 27 June 2011 22:17:49 erik quanstrom wrote: > > It's worth mentioning the devpts (the /dev/pts/* thingies) > > not unless it's 1978. :-)
oy, i was unclear. the main point: (in current linux) you can have several instances of devpts, by mounting them at various places (with -o newinstance); the relevant config is CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES also, the `protocol' of creating new /dev/pts/* is somewhat sensible, too. no ioctl(), just open /dev/pmtx, read a textual representation of an integer N and open /dev/pts/N. not claiming it's great tech, just that there's some progress in the linuxland. hopefully more pro- than con-, anyway >_>;; -- dexen deVries > (...) I never use more than 800Mb of RAM. I am running Linux, > a browser and a terminal. rjbond3rd in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692529
