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> +   /* Is this a pipe? Disallow on pipes. */
> +   if (flags & FILE_DESC_PIPE) {
> +     errno = ESPIPE;
> +     return(-1);
> +   }

I still think this is the wrong test.  FILE_DESC_PIPE is set by the
pipe() call, but that call *always* uses regular files.  We should be
testing the "is a device" bit from int 21/44/00 (but not sure what to
do about FSEXT).