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From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: is there a limit on how many mintty terminals can be open at once?
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:25:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f3a01d7b873$3fa7f280$bef7d780$@pdinc.us> (raw)

I got the "Error: Could not fork child process: There are no available terminals (-1)" error.

Closing N minty terminals allowed me to open exactly N more.

My google fu is poor, since I cannot seem to find relevant pages.

What is the limit?

Can the limit be configured?

$ ps -f | grep mintty | wc -l
42

$ dir /dev/ | grep pty | wc -l
46


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             reply	other threads:[~2021-10-03 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-03 16:25 Jason Pyeron [this message]
2021-10-03 19:58 ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-04 15:37   ` Brian Inglis
2021-10-04 19:51     ` Andrey Repin
2021-10-04 21:55       ` Takashi Yano

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