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Date:      Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:44:17 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird pty problem
Message-ID:  <199608120744.RAA01049@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>The only  way I've found to  avoid the problem is  to "rm /dev/ttyp8". That
>way, p8 is unavailable and programs skip it...

>Now the state is

>  ttyp8  0   0   0 1296 256     108 OZ   de1580 12923 term

This is more reasonable.  It might be waiting for output to drain,
and something bad has happened to ptyp8.

Does it really only happen for pty #8?

Is ptyp8 open?  (Look for it with fstat or lsof.)

Bruce



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