The following reply was made to PR port-xen/29887; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: port-xen-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:33:46 +0100

 >  Note that on my test box, without /dev/xencons I get:
 >  comore# sysctl kern.consdev
 >  kern.consdev = (null)
 >  not a core dump
 
 but probably only because printf("%s", NULL) outputs "(null)" which
 it isn't required to do at all - and arguably shouldn't.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk