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>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: PR/32682 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:59:03 -0400

 On Oct 6,  5:36pm, hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de (Hauke Fath) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: PR/32682 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
 
 | Am 06.10.2006 um 10:39 Uhr -0400 schrieb Christos Zoulas:
 | >So it is has been working fine for a while and it broke again, or
 | >there was no improvement?
 | 
 | I deployed the patched kernel + device file to a few lab machines, 
 | first, since the PhD students were busy running simulations 24/7 for 
 | a deadline. All machines got the update on the last weekend; I got 
 | one complaint from a post-doc on Tuesday, and a reproducible case 
 | that gave me the ktrace today from a diploma student in the lab. Too 
 | little data to construct a tendency (although, it's two datapoints ;).
 | 
 | >/emul/linux/dev/ptmx is major 156, minor 2?
 | 
 | 156, or rather 165?
 
 I am dyslexic.
 
 | >Does the ptmx regression program work?
 | 
 | [hf@Kuster] ~/src/pr32682 > file ptmx
 | ptmx: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
 | GNU/Linux 2.2.0, statically linked, not stripped
 | [hf@Kuster] ~/src/pr32682 > ./ptmx
 | ptmx: bad slave uid 0 != 503
 | [hf@Kuster] ~/src/pr32682 > ls -l /emul/linux/dev/ptmx
 | crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  165, 2 Oct  2 19:34 /emul/linux/dev/ptmx
 | [hf@Kuster] ~/src/pr32682 > ls -l /dev/ptmx
 | crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  165, 0 Aug  4 11:29 /dev/ptmx
 | [hf@Kuster] ~/src/pr32682 >
 
 Hmm mine is:
 $ file ptmx
 ptmx: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, not stripped
 
 And the ptmx program works. Can you give me an account on one of your machines?
 
 christos