site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Terry Lambert wrote: Uh, trust the code: % ls /dev/pty* | wc -l 128 128 > 32. -tbaur _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... And technically, if you are willing to dig around a little bit for the information (exercise left up to the student), it's pretty trivial to get it up to 256 without hacking any source code. there may be 128 /dev/pty there, but if you attempt to open more then 32 shell's, you'll find the limit of 32 and resulting fork/resource errors. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com