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| From: | Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* & tty* - is it normal? | ||
| Date: | Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:58:27 | ||
| Message-Id: | 201001261857.34198.wonko@wonkology.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* & tty* - is it normal? by Jarry |
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| 1 | Jarry writes: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l |
| 6 | > 256 |
| 7 | > obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l |
| 8 | > 325 |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then |
| 11 | > pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought |
| 12 | > udev creates device-files as they are needed, so I'm |
| 13 | > surprised to see so much of them... |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Seems to be normal, I get the same output on two of my Gentoo machines. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Wonko |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* & tty* - is it normal? | Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* & tty* - is it normal? | Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] /dev full of pty* & tty* - is it normal? | Stefan Schulte <stefan.schulte@×××××××××××.net> |