From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 89271 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2015 20:34:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 89262 invoked by uid 89); 11 Oct 2015 20:34:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-pa0-f48.google.com Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com (HELO mail-pa0-f48.google.com) (209.85.220.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:34:39 +0000 Received: by pacex6 with SMTP id ex6so6762637pac.0 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:34:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.66.190.6 with SMTP id gm6mr29979648pac.27.1444595677983; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.12] ([50.13.171.242]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id d2sm14236983pat.24.2015.10.11.13.34.36 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:34:36 -0700 (PDT) To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: kc lee Subject: no more pty problem Message-ID: <561AC7D9.3070901@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:34:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 Hello, I use gnu screen on cygwin. It seems like it does not close the terminals (ptys) cleanly upon closing and overtime this leads to an error: ("No more PTYs"). Has anyone else experienced similar issue? Is there a way I can manually free up ptys or increase the total number of ptys? Thanks in advance. -KC -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple