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
Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:54:03 +0100

 Gnah, when you want the bug, it doesn't show...
 
 A coworker reported it once with a -current kernel though, so it's 
 not strictly netbsd-3.
 
 Am 31.01.2006 um 17:55 Uhr +0000 schrieb Christos Zoulas:
 >  Can you show what w(1) prints and the "interesting" ptys in /dev/[pt]ty??.
 >  I suspect what is going on, is that you have a rogue program that is
 >  opening old style pty's behind the pty subsystem's back, so when ptyfs
 >  tries to open the same pty, it fails.
 
 Sounds reasonable...
 
 >So when it fails for pts/4 for example, what does lsof say for /dev/{t,p}typ4?
 
 I'll keep on trying,
 
 	hauke
 
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