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

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:22:05 -0500

 On Feb 23,  6:53pm, hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de (Hauke Fath) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
 
 | Am 23.02.2006 um 12:33 Uhr -0500 schrieb Christos Zoulas:
 | >Have you tried removing /dev/pty* and /dev/tty* [the pseudo's
 | >only, not the serial or wscons].
 | 
 | No, I haven't. Wouldn't that hurt anything else?
 | 
 | 	hauke
 
 Some ancient packages in pkgsrc might depend on /dev/pty** but these
 days the world is linux, so most things will work. Our base software
 definitely works.
 
 christos