JVM crashes on failed 'open' call: "Error: os::init: cannot open /dev/zero"

I was imitating "failed open" by returning -1.
If 'open' failure happens on 1th invocation of open JVM crashes with error:

> jdk_b84_solaris_i586/bin/java -version
INJECT_FAULT_AT=1
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error (4F533F534F4C415249530E4350500FA6), pid=1788, tid=2
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.6.0-beta2-b84 mixed mode, sharing)
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid1788.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
Abort (core dumped)


Fastdebug jvm fails with assertion:

> jdk_b84_solaris_i586/fastdebug/bin/java -version
# To suppress the following error report, specify this argument
# after -XX: or in .hotspotrc: SuppressErrorAt=/os_solaris.cpp:4006]
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error
(/export0/BUILD_AREA/jdk6.0/hotspot/src/os/solaris/vm/os_solaris.cpp, 4006), pid=1789, tid=2
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.6.0-beta2-fastdebug-b84-debug mixed mode, sharing)
#
# Error: os::init: cannot open /dev/zero (Error 0)
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid1789.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
Current thread is 2
Dumping core ...
Abort (core dumped)

I think JVM should not crash in this case, it should handle the situation
more gracefully.

To reproduce the failure:
1. login on solaris machine
2. cp -fr /home/ep155969/work/FaultInjection/open YOUR_LOCAL_DIR
3. cd YOUR_LOCAL_DIR
4. make
5. export LD_PRELOAD=./myopen.so
6. export INJECT_FAULT_AT=1
7. JAVA_PATH -version

You can also inject failures in all places 'open' is called at and see when JVM
does crash. To do it run inject_faults.sh:
    bash inject_faults.sh JAVA_PATH INJECTION_START INJECTION_END

The failure results will be stored in ./results dir.

Examples:
    bash inject_faults.sh /net/koori.sfbay/onestop/jdk/1.6.0/latest/binaries/solaris-i586/bin/java 1 33

To see how many time 'open' is called run:
 /usr/sbin/dtrace -s opencalls.d -c "JAVA_PATH -version"