script stuck in devdrn

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

> Eygene Ryabinkin writes:
>> Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:30:55AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
>>> It's not just script(1), it's anything that allocates a pty (including 
>>> sshd) when kern.pts.enable is set to 1.
>>
>> Confirmed. It is broken in my old and new -CURRENT kernels (9th and 11th of 
>> April).
>
> This problem has existed for months. IIRC I changed my loader.conf to set 
> kern.pts.enable to 0 at least 3 or 4 months ago. I know there was a fairly 
> extensive thread about it, but I can't provide a pointer to it.

There is a known issue regarding devfs device node removal, which pts 
exercises extensively.  I'm not sure what the status of fixing this is 
currently (I know it has been looked at), but it would be very nice to see 
this fixed in the immediate future.  Right now, kern.pts.enable defaults to 0, 
but it would be nice to set it to 1 as the default for 7.0.  Since it affects 
application behavior, it would be better to do this sooner rather than later 
in order to give both base system apps and ports a chance to settle out.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge