Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:50:24 -0400, "Ted Unangst" wrote:
> 
> > Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2016-06-30, Oriol Demaria <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Trying tmuxinator here I have noticed that I ran out of pty, according
> > > > to man pty(4) there is a kernel parameter specifiying the max
> > > > number. I'm running a snapshot from last Friday, and I don't seem to
> > > > have kern.tty.maxptys.
> > > 
> > > You probably just ran out of device nodes, the default (62) is a bit small
> > > for some uses (often exhibited as not being able to open new xterms), but 
> > > y
> > ou
> > > can create more like this:
> > > 
> > > cd /dev
> > > sh MAKEDEV pty1
> > 
> > This shouldn't be a problem for software using openpty().
> 
> I don't think that is correct.  You still need to device nodes in
> /dev to exist.  Otherwise, the PTMGET ioctl will fail.

oh, my bad. I thought ptm would create the pty nodes as needed, but apparently
not.

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