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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 03:39:21 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Peter Hackett <peter.hackett@icmanage.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
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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