Re: no more free ptys

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:14:36PM -0500, Monica wrote:
> I have a utility that runs in Windows 2000 (sorry, the server for this product is only available for this o/s..) and it is supposed to be able to open a pty master/slave (such as /dev/ptya0 and /dev/ttya0) on the Linux server (Fedora Core2 Test1) and then do what it needs to do on the server.  This is not happening with Fedora.  The logs show that it can't open and find a free pty.

Really it should be using Unix98 ttys anyway (/dev/ptmx) but I'm not
aware of the specific reason that old style pty stopped working