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Looks different on my machine: |
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# ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l |
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zsh: no matches found: /dev/pty* |
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0 |
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# ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l |
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65 |
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It may have something to do with your kernel settings. |
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Device Drivers->Character devices->Unix98 PTY support is enabled |
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Device Drivers->Character devices->Legacy (BSD) PTY support is disabled |
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here |
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-Stefan |
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:57:33PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Jarry writes: |
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> > I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: |
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> > |
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> > obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l |
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> > 256 |
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> > obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l |
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> > 325 |
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> > |
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> > They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then |
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> > pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought |
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> > udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm |
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> > surprised to see so much of them... |
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> Seems to be normal, I get the same output on two of my Gentoo machines. |
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> Wonko |
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