Subject: Re: Crashes in -current kernel
To: None <gdonl@gv.ssi1.com, jmarin@teeri.jmp.fi, mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@NetBSD.ORG>
List: current-users
Date: 02/02/1996 07:41:00 
   Won't this leave the the device modes in the wrong state (a possible
   security problem).

That's a bug in the application.

   Would this patch also cause close() to return EBADF?

No.