On Sep 27,  2:47pm, simonb@wasabisystems.com (Simon Burge) wrote:
-- Subject: kern/31403: /dev/ptm tries to return /dev/ptyv0 which doesn't exi

|         One idea is to remove 'v' from TTY_LETTERS in tty_bsdpty.c, and
|         then adjust /dev/MAKEDEV so that ptyw0 is the minor number after
|         ptyuf (ie, 96).


This is on i386. On other platforms other pty numbers are reserved...
The simplest solution is to un-reserve the numbers/names or use ptyfs.
I don't want to start adding unmaintainable hacks in the name of backwards
compatibility.

christos