Attachment 88916 Details for Bug 125772 – books.faq.ptys.patch.1.diff

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>Index: book.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.1075
>diff -u -u -r1.1075 book.sgml
>--- book.sgml	19 Jul 2008 07:42:11 -0000	1.1075
>+++ book.sgml	23 Jul 2008 19:21:56 -0000
>@@ -6290,43 +6290,21 @@
> 
>         <answer>
> 
>-          <para>If you have lot of <command>telnet</command>, <command>ssh</command>, X, or <command>screen</command> users,
>-            you will probably run out of pseudoterminals.  Here is how to
>-            add more:</para>
>+	  <para>If you have a lot of telnet, ssh, X, or screen users,
>+	    you might run out of pseudoterminals.  By default,
>+	    &os;&nbsp;6.2 and earlier support 256 pseudoterminals, while
>+	    &os;&nbsp;6.3 and later support 512 pseudoterminals.</para>
> 
>-            <procedure>
>-              <step>
>-                <para>Build and install a new kernel with the line in
>-                  the configuration file:</para>
>-
>-                <programlisting>device pty <replaceable>N</replaceable></programlisting>
>-
>-                <para>where <replaceable>N</replaceable> is the number
>-                  of requested pseudoterminals.</para>
>-              </step>
>-
>-              <step>
>-                <para>Edit <filename>/etc/ttys</filename> and add lines
>-                for each of the <replaceable>N</replaceable> terminals.  They should match the form
>-                of the existing entries, i.e. they look like this:</para>
>-
>-                <programlisting>ttyqc none network</programlisting>
>-
>-                <para>The order of the letter designations is
>-                  <literal>tty[pqrsPQRSlmnoLMNO][0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv]</literal>, using a
>-                  regular expression.</para>
>-              </step>
>-
>-              <step>
>-                <para>Reboot the system with the new kernel and you are
>-                  ready to go.</para>
>-              </step>
>-            </procedure>
>-
>-	  <note>
>-	    <para>Using more than 256 (up to 512) &man.pty.4; devices requires
>-	      &os;&nbsp;6.3 or later.</para>
>-	  </note>
>+	  <tip>
>+	    <para>If needed, more pseudoterminals can be added.
>+	      However, this requires patching the standard C library,
>+	      the kernel, and <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>.  For
>+	      example, <ulink
>+		url="http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/pty_1152.patch"></ulink>
>+	      expands the number of pseudoterminals to 1152.  Note that
>+	      the patch will only apply cleanly to &os;&nbsp;6.3 or
>+	      later.</para>
>+	  </tip>
>        </answer>
>       </qandaentry>
>

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