Re: [patch] new pty allocation strategy for BSD

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Roland Illig wrote:
>
> > subshell.c currently contains hard-coded values for the available pty
> > names. These names do not match with the ptys that can be found on
> > actual systems. NetBSD 3.0 has ptyp[0-9A-Za-z], as well as
> > pty[qrs][0-9A-Za-z], so mc can only use 64 of the 100 available ptys.
> >
> > There may be similar issues on other systems, I haven't checked.
> >
> > The appended patch just scans through the /dev/ directory, looking for
> > anything that matches /^pty..$/.
>
> The first part of the patch really doesn't have much to do with the
> problem you are trying to solve. As for the second part NetBSD 3.0
> has posix_openpt() so MC should use it. I don't think that scanning the
> /dev directory makes sense - it's an overkill. Modern platforms  have
> other means for acquiring pseudo terminals. Just my $0.02.

Still we can update the available list of characters for master name
generation to include [0-9A-Za-z].