"Julio M. Merino Vidal" wrote:

> I've been running NetBSD systems with ptyfs enabled for years (soon  
> after it was introduced, IIRC) and without COMPAT_BSDPTY... and have  
> not found any problems so far.

The only problem I've seen is that a reasonably oldish pkgsrc xorg's
xconsole had code that only scanned /dev/pty?? and doesn't work with
just ptyfs.  I've been meaning to update my xorg for a long time, so
I don't know if this is still a problem.

Simon.