PE>
 > I would have thought that device drivers were validly using those
 > file handles.
PE>

JdBP> Any device driver that assumes that an arbitrary process will have a
JdBP> specific open file handle is badly broken.

I didn't mean that, I meant that the device driver opened a file for a good
reason, and doesn't expect a child process to close it on it's behalf. 
BFN.  Paul.
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