too many tty's was: Re: Getting tty name without using ttyname(3)

[Rick Peralta]

In article cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>If you really need the performance gain, you could make a new directory say
>/dev/only_ttys which contains links to all the tty devices in /dev.  

Does anyone have anyopinions on how to deal with too many tty entries in /dev?
Sifting through thousands of entries is rather painfull and slow.  Following
the SysV style of things (please no quips here ;^) making a tty directory makes
sense.  Has anyone done this?  If so on what systems how has it worked out?
How were backward compatability issues worked out?


 - Rick