>> i'm in the middle of overhauling the ioctl code in the kernel to
>> eliminate this problem.
>
>Hmmmm.... that's quite interesting.  I had a sneaking suspicion it was a
>kernel bug.

yep.  not something exploitable or anything, just something annoying.
if you wanna discuss it, we can.  otherwise i'll just point you at
regress/lib/libc/sys/ttyio in your local current source tree.  that
demonstrates the problem quite succinctly.

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