Re: /dev/pts/X not getting reused
In article <[🔎] 20040405060654.GA2711@chistera>,
Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es> wrote:
>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.
It's a feature of the 2.6 kernel. Not much you can do about it
except going back to 2.4 (or hacking the kernel yourself).
>[Please CC me on replies, M-F-T set accordingly.]
Sorry, reading this (and replying) through a usenet gateway.
Mike.
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