in KDE under Konsole, when re-opeing a crashed bash shell, how to control what /dev/pts/nn number it gets?

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I use Kubuntu 20.04 and KNOPPIX 9.1, and always the KDE desktop, and under Konsole 15 windows with shell bash in each.

I always have two levels of bash: the first level which automatically is created for user, e.g. knoppix, and a second level, which I create for user "root".

The windows and the shells in them have two essential names with attached numbers, e.g. "Konsole-2", "/dev/pts/1".

When it happens that a bash crashes, the bash vanishes without writing its history list to the history file.

And the window of Konsole is closed.

In order to restore the former state, I open a new window under Konsole, a shell become running etc.

Now the essential events:

Most often good ghosts make sure that "Konsole-n" and "/dev/pts/nn", resp., after restore have the same numbers as before crash.

This causes that bash has again the history list of state before crash. So I can continue my work.

But today, as it very seldom happens: "Konsole-n" has the same number as before of crash, but "/dev/pts/nn" is a totally different number. It is a nummber from some tests 2 weeks ago. An the history list is that of the former tests.

So I am in need: how can I acchieve a new creted shell bash to get the number "/dev/pts/nn" of before the crash.

It may be that my update actions had caused that the pts numbers are intentionally not repeated but taken new numbers.

Regards, 21.01.2023 21:32

== 30.01.2023 12:53 this question has a follow-up question in:

Linux: How to access, resp. use, running processes, especially process bash, which are not attached to a terminal?

Regards

== 14.03.2023 22:00 new good report: good ghosts had reestablished my system :: I was working in in the window the tab of which was in the tab bar = window select bar on the third position from the LHS. The title bar showed "Konsole 3". The pseudo terminal number was 16, i.e. /dev/pts/16. As usual, I was not in the first-level shell of UID 1000, but in the second-level shell bash of user "root", UID 0.

It happened a crash (as often, I do not know why). Both levels of shell closed automatically, and the window closed, vanished. In the tab bar at botton the number of tabs decreased by one.

Now I have had to restore the situation.

I right-clicked on one window tab in order to get the context menu. I cklicked on "open new window". A new window opened. A new window tab was created, on the extreme RHS.

The first-level shell bash was invoked automatically, as usual.

The new window has in the title bar "Konsole 3", same as before the crash.

The pseudoterminal is /dev/pts16, same as before the crash.

I crated the second-level shell for "root": window has in the title bar "Konsole 3", pseudoterminal is /dev/pts16, same as before the crash.

And the important point: the history list of bash is there again, as before the crash, about 400.000 lines.

Thus this kind of behavior is back again. Kind of behavior as I am used since many, many years, a behavior which is in contrast to some answers I got.

Please does someone know the relationships, does someone comprehend this

Regards.