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bug #23691: Unnecessary upper limit on how many pty's may be opened

Submitter:  Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Submitted:  Tue 24 Jun 2008 05:36:13 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Program Logic Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  * 5 - Normal Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  5.0.0
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  Later
Work Required:  0 - Hours
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Sun 09 Jul 2017 10:07:01 PM UTC, comment #2: 

As far as I can tell there should be no limit of ptys anymore on master branch. And windows are now allocated dynamically.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=6724ef2529c8bb80d0b103f528af371a1b3e77d8

 Amadeusz Sławiński <amade>
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Sun 25 Jan 2009 06:43:13 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Correction: patch isn't at all reasonable, as it removes the BSD-style pty code, replacing it with SCO's conventions.

exg points us at openssh's pty.c, which uses a method that has the advantage that it doesn't really care if it's running under BSD or SCO (it tries both). It has the disadvantage of checking twice as many tty names.

 Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Tue 24 Jun 2008 05:36:13 AM UTC, original submission:  

At least on SCO.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/screen-error-no-more-ptys-299380/

The patch seems mostly reasonable, though it includes a patch against config.h, which is inappropriate (as is the addition of PTYMAX to that location). I don't understand why MAXWIN was modified there, either.

 Micah Cowan <micahcowan>

 

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    2017-07-09 amade StatusConfirmed Fixed
        ReleaseNone 5.0.0
    2009-01-28 micahcowan Planned Release4.1.0 Later

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