Running out of ptys

[Peter Hackett]

Corinna,

Thank you very much!

Unfortunately I ran into a problem.

Referring to FAQ 2.19. "How do I install snapshots?"  I downloaded:

     2015-04-07 10:25:12 UTC x86_64/cygwin1-20150407.dll.xz

unxz'ed it, and installed it in c:\cygwin\bin

When I tried to run "Cygwin Terminal" I got:

     "mintty.exe - Application Error
      The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)."

Do I need to install "everything"? (E.g. x86_64/cygwin-inst-20150407.tar.xz)

 > On Apr  6 16:21, Peter Hackett wrote:
 > > 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.
 >
 > The number of ttys is limited by the size of the global shared memory
 > area, 64K.  Right now this shared mem area is not used completely.  We
 > should be able to handle 128 ttys without much of a problem.  I applied
 > a patch for that and uploaded new developer snapshots to
 > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/  Please give it a try.
 >
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Corinna
 > --
 > Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
 > Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
 > Red Hat

  



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