testsuite problems

[Richard Earnshaw]

> > failed to get controlling terminal using TIOCSCTTYparent: sync byte write: 
> > broken pipe
> 
> 
> BSD?
> 

Yep. (NetBSD)

> I've seen the message on FreeBSD and  NetBSD systems and never been
> able to track it down - re-running the  testsuite made it disappear
> :-( 

Hmm, well my shark has a fairly limited number of ptys (64), so with 
200-odd failures by that point, it is plausible.

R.