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From: peralta@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Rick Peralta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: too many tty's was: Re: Getting tty name without using ttyname(3)
Summary: /dev/tty/[pt]/[0-9a-z][0-9a-zA-Z] anyone?
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Date: 22 Feb 90 21:59:21 GMT
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In article cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>If you really need the performance gain, you could make a new directory say
>/dev/only_ttys which contains links to all the tty devices in /dev.  

Does anyone have anyopinions on how to deal with too many tty entries in /dev?
Sifting through thousands of entries is rather painfull and slow.  Following
the SysV style of things (please no quips here ;^) making a tty directory makes
sense.  Has anyone done this?  If so on what systems how has it worked out?
How were backward compatability issues worked out?


 - Rick