[Cialug] RH pty #s

[L. V. Lammert]

At 06:01 PM 1/25/2012, you wrote:

>It's not official documentation, but if it's of any use I know that 
>PTYs cannot change numbers after they are opened, so when someone 
>logs out after you've logged in your PTY number does not go down. 
>This is trivial to demonstrate -- just log in a bunch of users (or 
>the same user a bunch of times) and then log out all but the last 
>session. That last session will still have a high PTY number even 
>though the number of open PTYs is much lower.

In this case, the report was that the next login gets a pty number 
that is one greater than the max, .. however I tested on SuSE 11.4 
and the next login session received the next *available* pty; I will 
try and run some tests on the RH system operates differently.

         Thanks for the info!

         Lee