The following reply was made to PR kern/31403; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: re: kern/31403: /dev/ptm tries to return /dev/ptyv0 which doesn't exist
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:38:53 -0400

 On Sep 28,  5:41pm, mrg@eterna.com.au (matthew green) wrote:
 -- Subject: re: kern/31403: /dev/ptm tries to return /dev/ptyv0 which doesn't
 
 | is it really so hard to fix this properly?  it seems that we
 | don't care about backwards compatibility any more.
 
 No, it is not hard at all. Just a bit time consuming to go through all
 the ports, MAKEDEVS, major files and clean them up.
 
 christos