Miod Vallat <m...@online.fr> wrote: > Opening a pseudo-tty (/dev/tty[p-zP-T][0-9a-zA-Z]) causes the kernel to > allocate a struct tty for it, as well as ring buffers for tty data. This > memory will not get released if the pseudo-tty is closed, for it may be > opened again in the future.
The change seems reasonable to me. Years ago weren't we more lazy about allocating the tty buffer data?