On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:35:58 +0000
Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> starting matlab R13 on a netbsd-3 machine with suse 9.1 packages 
> installed gives me (ktrace'd):

[..]
>         "\^B\0\0\0\^B\0\0\0/dev/ptyp2\0\0\0\0\0\0/dev/ttyp2\0\0\0\0\0
> \0" 746 matlab   RET   ioctl 0
>     746 matlab   CALL  stat64(0xbfbf9ad0,0xbfbf9a20)
>     746 matlab   NAMI  "/emul/linux/dev/pts/2"
>     746 matlab   NAMI  "/dev/pts/2"

Do you have /dev/pts mounted with mount_ptyfs?

I think you need this...