Also- to be fair and on review, kern/391 isn't really addressed by
the previous commits. In reviewing, I'm embarassed to find that this
talks about reading at EOT. I'm actually going to claim that this
is 'not a bug' or 'fixed already' in that at the end of media (at the
edge of recorded media), you may continuously open the tape (should
you choose to) issue a read, and zero bytes will transfer- this is a
sufficient EOF indicator.