The following reply was made to PR lib/44807; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost Cc: Subject: Re: lib/44807 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:49:51 +0300 His problem is that bpf_stat does not set S_IFCHR in mode.