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Re: Running out of ptys
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Peter Hackett <peter dot hackett at icmanage dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 03:39:21 +0300
- Subject: Re: Running out of ptys
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Greetings, Peter Hackett!
> It looks like the maximum number of ptys under Cygwin is 64.
> I have two 2160x3840 (4K) monitors and I'm running into this limit.
> I would like to raise it.
> After googling around,
> I found: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-12/msg00357.html
> Where someone asks about how to increase the number of ptys. And
> a reply said that the limit is hard-coded. The reply says "You'd have
> to rebuild the Cygwin DLL to change it."
> How hard is it to build the Cygwin DLL?
It isn't hard at all, even if time-consuming at first.
Just read the instructions and very carefully follow them.
I were able to build Cygwin with no C/C++ experience at all.
> Is it something that journeyman C++ programmer without any kernel
> experience could do?
> If so, can someone point in the general direction of something like:
> "So you want to build the Cygwin DLL"
> document (if any.)
You know, this is frustrating? the answer is in the most obvious place and
most obviously titled "How do I build Cygwin on my own?"
http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 03:33:18
Sorry for my terrible english...
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