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From:	"Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron AT pdinc DOT us>
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Subject:	is there a limit on how many mintty terminals can be open at once?
Date:	Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:25:15 -0400
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I got the "Error: Could not fork child process: There are no available terminals (-1)" error.

Closing N minty terminals allowed me to open exactly N more.

My google fu is poor, since I cannot seem to find relevant pages.

What is the limit?

Can the limit be configured?

$ ps -f | grep mintty | wc -l
42

$ dir /dev/ | grep pty | wc -l
46


CYGWIN_NT-10.0 hostname 3.2.0(0.340/5/3) 2021-03-29 08:42 x86_64 Cygwin

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