HEADSUP: New pts code triggers panics on amd64 systems.

[Steve Kargl]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:26:24PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> Does the instability occur if kern.pts.enable=0, or only when 
> kern.pts.enable=1?  If 0, if you back out the user space changes but leave 
> tty_pts.c compiled into the kernel, do the instability issues persist?  How 
> about with the kernel code compiled out, but the user space code in place?
> 

I opened a critial PR about this problem.  There is
a backtrace from a kernel panic that shows that there
is either a latent bug in devfs uncovered by pts code
or the pts code is stomping on memory.  I still have the
vmcore.0 file and I may have the matching kernel.

-- 
Steve