[Gllug] No more PTYs problem

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Jan 21 21:29:20 UTC 2007


On 21 Jan 2007, Adrian McMenamin verbalised:
> adrian at transpero:/dev/pts$ expect -c "spawn ls"
> spawn ls
> The system has no more ptys.  Ask your system administrator to create
> more.
>     while executing
> "spawn ls"

If you strace that we could get more info. expect has an *insane* amount
of compile-time configuration crud in this area so it's hard to work out
what code path it might be following. Some clue as to which syscall is
failing would help.

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