Re: [TCLUG:12287] devpts

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

You probably have "Use BSD Unix98 PTY's" compiled into your kernel (not
verbatim).  You don't need it unless you're going to have a LOT of tty's
in use.

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> >devpts has to do with the Unix98 PTY slaves.
>         not to sound ungrateful, but, what's a Unix98 PTY slave? I vaguely
> know what a ptty is (when you open an xterm or the like, the system thinks
> of it as a pseudo-terminal); but what does the UNIX98 spec do to change this?
>         mostly what I want to know is if I need this on my workstation at home.
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
> 
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