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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:21:35 -0700
From: Peter Hackett <peter.hackett@icmanage.com>
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Subject: Running out of ptys
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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?

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.)


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