Answer to: Increasing the number of BSD pty's in SunOS 5.x

From: Michael Richards (mar@xylogics.com)
Date: Thu Sep 04 1997 - 20:46:00 CDT


Thanks for the all the input. It seems that the system variable "npty"
will increase the number of BSD pty's. I was only setting "pt_cnt" in the
/etc/system file.

        Michael Richards

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On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Michael Richards wrote:

>
> In SunOS 5.x how does one increase the number of BSD (/dev/ptyXX) pty's?
>
> I increased the number of System V (/dev/pts/*) pty's by setting the
> pt_cnt variable in the file /etc/system.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
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