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

From: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:00:15 +0100

 Am 23.02.2006 um 18:25 Uhr +0000 schrieb Christos Zoulas:
 >  | 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.
 
 Kool -- the Krappy KDE 'konsole' thingie barfs because it cannot get 
 a pty. Unfortunately, that is pretty popular around here.
 
 Does it matter that all the packages we use here were built on 
 netbsd-2? I.e. would a KDE built on netbsd-3 automagically use 
 /dev/ptmx?
 
 	hauke (off to go skiing for a week now :)
 
 
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