On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 04:25:03AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:46:08PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Kernel folks: > > > > Is it deliberate that pseudo-tty numbers are never "recycled" in recent > > kernel versions? This can lead to very large numbers; please see the logs > > of #256468 for details. > > It was a deliberate decision made in order to reduce the risk of something > or other. The decision's been reverted due to the bugs found in other > programs *ahem*. I can get more details if you're interested, but I > think it's probably best to see this as a warning to update this code > at some point. Can I plead for a consensus view that this either is or is not a bug in xterm? -- G. Branden Robinson | If a man ate a pound of pasta and a Debian GNU/Linux | pound of antipasto, would they branden@debian.org | cancel out, leaving him still http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hungry? -- Scott Adams
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