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>, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:19:22 -0500

 On Feb 24,  6:00pm, hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de (Hauke Fath) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
 
 | 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?
 | 
 
 I believe that if you recompile it, it will find the posix pty stuff.
 
 christos