> This is sort of a religious war; some operating systems keep the state
> between device closes, others reset it.  I see the advantages to each,
> but I think I prefer the "reset to known state" mode.

Absolutely.  How would dial-in tty lines work at all if someone mangled
the tty flags and logged off - the flags would stay wrong forever.  I
feel the flags _must_ be reset when the device is closed.

  -jm