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/dev/pts/X not getting reused



Hi, since some days ago, I've noticed that pts devices are not being
reused. I mean, the usual behavior was: open a xterm, which gets e.g.
pts/7, close it, open another one, which will get pts/7 again. Now it'd
get pts/8, and then pts/9, and so on. Not that I care *that* much but I
just prefer the old behavior, where pts get recycled.

Has anybody here heard of something similar? I've searched the archives
and googled around but I couldn't find a thing.

I'm using a stock Debian kernel image (kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686).

    $ mount | grep pts
    devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

TIA.

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