PTY-Allocation under SCO 5

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 svaughan at asterion.com wrote:

> 
> Damien,
> 	I've tested the patch on SCO Openserver 5.0.5 and so far it works
> great! This fixed my pty problem.  
> 	One thing I noticed is that num_ptys turns out to be 832. A
> standard SCO install gives you 64 ptys, though most admins up this as is
> the case on the server I have been testing on, which has 1055 ptys. I'm
> wondering if there is a good way to check to see how many ptys are
> available on a system like SCO. Or would this be a bad idea ?
 
Is there a system call, etc that can be used to check this?

-d


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