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From: Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* & tty* - is it normal?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:00:29
Message-Id: 4B5F1DB5.8020901@gmail.com
1 Hi,
2 I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev:
3
4 obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l
5 256
6 obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l
7 325
8
9 They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then
10 pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought
11 udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm
12 surprised to see so much of them...
13
14 Jarry
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Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* & tty* - is it normal? Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>