On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Robert Watson wrote:
FYI, there's also a tty_pts.c floating around, based on some work I did at McAfee a couple of years ago, that implements /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts for FreeBSD. Among other things, it removes the limit on the number pty's, and adopts the Sys V pty naming convention. While there are upsides and downsides to the naming convention, it does attempt to normalize the way we handle pty's, as well as removing the requirement for root privilege in order to allocate and properly protect a pty. I have an older version at http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/pts/. However, it's fairly dated, and may not work due to other changes since it was written (I've not looked to see). I've tried several times to trick developers into picking it up and doing the last remaining work to make it real -- largely what's required is work on the forward/backward compatibility issue, that and extensive testing and a security audit. It would be nice to ship 7.x with these changes as it would resolve a lot of problems.
As a follow-up, Olivier Houchard just committed tty_pts.c and supporting libc pieces to 7-CURRENT; you can find details in the HEADS UP post on freebsd-current. By default the limit is 1000 pty's, but that can be increased. Testing most welcome.
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