From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 10/07/93 

From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: /proc, ptys and su on /dev/ttyS0
Date: 7 Oct 1993 14:30:42 +0200

In article <CEI3FE.GzK@cs.dal.ca>, Paul Gauthier <gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca> wrote:
>
>b] When I'm running X and I open too many xterms the beast locks up tight.
> Am I running out of pty's? There are dozens in /dev, but only the first
> four of them have modification times other than the far past. Ideas?

Try getting the 0.99.13 kernel, and use that instead of 0.99.12. That
is likely to stop the hangs.

                Linus