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

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, port-xen-maintainer@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, atatat@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:07:19 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:33:42PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > On Apr 6,  9:23pm, bouyer@antioche.eu.org (Manuel Bouyer) wrote:
 > -- Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
 > 
 > | On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:21:00AM +0000, juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org wrote:
 > | > 
 > | > 	Running sysctl kern.consdev in a domU results in a coredump:
 > | > 
 > | > 	[juan@XenU_0][~]> sysctl kern.consdev          
 > | > 	zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  sysctl kern.consdev
 > | > 	[juan@XenU_0][~]>
 > | 
 > | Hi,
 > | Can you check if this is fixed by
 > | cd /dev
 > | sh MAKEDEV xencons
 > | 
 > | The default install doesn't create /dev/xencons, I have a patch to fix this.
 > | 
 > 
 > This should be assigned to atatat@netbsd.org. It should not coredump anyway.
 
 Agreed. I've opended another PR for this.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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