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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:23:31 +0200
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On Monday 27 June 2011 22:17:49 erik quanstrom wrote:
> > It's worth mentioning the devpts (the /dev/pts/* thingies)
>
> not unless it's 1978.  :-)

oy, i was unclear.

the main point: (in current linux) you can have  several instances of devpts,
by mounting them at various places (with -o  newinstance); the relevant config
is CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES

also, the `protocol' of creating new /dev/pts/* is somewhat sensible, too. no
ioctl(), just open /dev/pmtx, read a textual representation of an integer N
and open /dev/pts/N.

not claiming it's great tech, just that there's some progress in the
linuxland. hopefully more pro- than con-, anyway >_>;;


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dexen deVries

> (...) I never use more than 800Mb of RAM. I am running Linux,
> a browser and a terminal.
rjbond3rd in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692529