What does a 'fstat | grep pty' report?

		David/absolute

         -=- They took away my irony, but they left my deceit  -=-

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Matthew Ross Davis wrote:

> > 	What happens if you
> > 	'cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV pty1'
> 
> Wow, interesting:
> 
> bash-2.03# ls pty*
> ptyp0 ptyp2 ptyp4 ptyp6 ptyp8 ptypa ptypc ptype
> ptyp1 ptyp3 ptyp5 ptyp7 ptyp9 ptypb ptypd ptypf
> bash-2.03# ./MAKEDEV pty1
> bash-2.03# ls pty*
> ptyp0 ptyp3 ptyp6 ptyp9 ptypc ptypf ptyq2 ptyq5 ptyq8 ptyqb ptyqe
> ptyp1 ptyp4 ptyp7 ptypa ptypd ptyq0 ptyq3 ptyq6 ptyq9 ptyqc ptyqf
> ptyp2 ptyp5 ptyp8 ptypb ptype ptyq1 ptyq4 ptyq7 ptyqa ptyqd
> 
> And telnet and ssh both work! I'm still concerned as to why when only p0-7 and
> pf are being used that the rest of the pseudo terminals didn't get recycled... 
> 
> junior   p0 tamserver.jfk1.g Wed07PM     2 ssh finary.com 
> jzitt    p4 jzittpc:S.0       2:12PM  3:02 /usr/local/bin/bash 
> mrd      p5 ryoanji:S.1      Tue08AM     5 tf lambda 
> mrd      p6 ryoanji:S.0       8:06AM     0 w 
> mrd      p7 ryoanji:S.2       8:41AM     0 vi /home/mrd/tmp/mutt-silence-183-45
> jzitt    pf jzittpc:S.1       2:12PM     0 mutt 
> 
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