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Subject: Re: 200 pty's on Multimax
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Date: 1 Mar 89 14:18:46 GMT
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I have set up the pseudo-terminals to 256 on my machine.

It is necessary to change "telnetd", "rlogind", "script".
("screen", "gnuemacs", "wm", ...).   I changed the first three only,
and they randomly choose a starting port, and then sequentially continue
until they find an open one.  It takes a very long time to search thru
that many pseudo-ports.

I talked with Mike at Usenix, and he suggested an datagram program that
manages the ports.  I shall be assigning a programmer to this task next
week.  Hopefully this will make this fall's "mips" release out of Berkeley.

(After 352, you must re-think the algorithm for naming the pseudo ports.).)