more windows on unixpc

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <WJC.89Apr18182734 at ho5cad.ho5cad.ATT.COM> wjc at ho5cad.ATT.COM 
(Bill Carpenter) writes:
|>A while back there was a question and brief discussion about getting
|>more windows on a UNIXpc.  I don't recall ever seeing if anyone ever
|>figured out how to do it or figured out definitively that it couldn't
|>be done (without rebuilding the kernel, I guess).
|>
|>So, does anybody know the answer to this?  (Well, as a matter of fact,
|>I *haven't* tried just making more /dev/w?? device entries.  On this
|>machine, that sounds too simple.)

Ain't that simple ...  I tried doing the mknod(1M) command for the next
window devices (minor number changed) to see if the NWINDOWS define in
/etc/master for 12 was the limit.  It sure was, after the 12 windows were
allocated I got EBUSY ... "Device Busy" ... 

Maybe the next release of the kernel will have NWINDOWS increased, 
although I rarely go over 12 windows ... if you don't use the 
USER AGENT (UA) then you shouldn't have too much trouble keeping
within the 12 window constraint.

-Lenny
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