The following reply was made to PR kern/32682; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:40:25 +1300

 On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:40, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 >  This is great information. Now what application opened the pty? kde
 > terminal? This is the application that is not using openpty and it is
 > trying to open pty's directly.
 
 konsole (the kde terminal) uses the KPty class to deal with pty's.  There is 
 conditional code in KPty to use openpty and for me at least on current 
 configure sets HAVE_OPENPTY to use it, dont know if thats the case for Hauke.
 
 cheers
 mark