The following reply was made to PR bin/34979; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Scott Ellis <scotte@warped.com>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/34979: -current libc causes boot failure
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:00:38 -0800

 Christos Zoulas wrote:
 [snip]
 > It gets a blank line from intrepid; prog is empty, so the strlen() in the
 > loop does not advance...
 [snip]
 
 Yeah, but why does it get that input on the first run through?  Because 
 it's pulling data from the message buffer (those first lines look like 
 the log from booting), and subsequent runs have "real" syslog messages 
 in there?
 
 	ScottE