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On 26. 1. 2010 18:57, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev: |
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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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>> 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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Thanks for info. FYI I just checked some debian-machine and |
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it has only 63 tty's and none pty. I always thought it had |
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something to do with number of terminals started by inittab. |
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Anyway, it looks so that udev is not dynamic for all kind |
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of dev-files... |
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Jarry |
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