From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Brian Inglis <cygwin@cygwin.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: is there a limit on how many mintty terminals can be open at once?
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 22:51:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1844552584.20211004225155@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <581b2204-da47-b104-4735-20b35af13f9b@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
Greetings, Brian Inglis!
> On 2021-10-03 13:58, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:25:15 -0400
>> "Jason Pyeron" wrote:
>>> 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?
>> In current cygwin, maximum number of pty is 128.
>> It is hard coded and not configurable by user.
>> https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/tty.h#l15
> Why would you want and how could you use 128 local terminal windows on
> one system, where could you put them, and be able to read them, unless
> you are building some kind of control centre, and then wouldn't GUI
> processes forked under a windows system be more useful?
Won't SSH sessions allocate pty's ?
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, October 4, 2021 22:51:31
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-04 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-03 16:25 Jason Pyeron
2021-10-03 19:58 ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-04 15:37 ` Brian Inglis
2021-10-04 19:51 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2021-10-04 21:55 ` Takashi Yano
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