The following reply was made to PR kern/31403; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/31403: /dev/ptm tries to return /dev/ptyv0 which doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:03:10 -0400

 On Sep 28,  2:52am, simonb@wasabisystems.com (Simon Burge) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/31403: /dev/ptm tries to return /dev/ptyv0 which doesn't
 
 |  It doesn't look like ptyfs is an option for the 3.0 branch.  The only
 |  reference to it in _any_ kernel configuration file is this commented out
 |  entry:
 |  
 |  	thoreau 2> grep -r PTYFS */conf/[A-Z]???*
 |  	i386/conf/GENERIC.MPACPI:#file-system PTYFS # experimental - /dev/ptm support
 |  	thoreau 3> cat CVS/Tag
 |  	Tnetbsd-3
 |  
 |  and mount_ptyfs(3) says:
 |  
 |  BUGS
 |       This filesystem may not be NFS-exported.  This filesystem is experimen-
 |       tal.
 |  
 |  So using ptyfs for at least the 3.0 branch doesn't seem like an option
 |  unless this is addressed.
 
 I don't consider this a critical or serious bug, but nevertheless, there
 have been no fixes to ptyfs since the 3.0 branch, so uncommenting it
 from the configuration file and compiling the kernel will work for those
 who need this.
 
 christos