There was (is?) a race condition in some versions of the ppp driver, whereby
two pppds could both open the same port. What would happen is that one
process would close the port and set the speed to zero while another process
was writing data into it. This would put the kernel into a dead loop.
I thought this bug had long ago been fixed, but it seems it hasn't...
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