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I can't reproduce a test failure for Solaris 8 (on the SF
compile farm) for Python 2.3a2. Can you please try that
specific release and report what test fails for you, in
which way?

I'm concerned that the patch isn't that good, e.g. on Linux,
it would cause usage of the old-style interface to
pseudo-terminals, even though an all-singing all-dancing
Unix98 pty support is available in the C library.