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

From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
To: christos@zoulas.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, port-xen-maintainer@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:47:29 +0900

 > I agree with Bill here. Having things core-dump for no reason is
 > counter-productive.
 
 actually, there is a reason.
 if your application passes NULL to puts, it has a bug.
 IMO, it's a good enough reason to dump core.
 continuing processing with unknown state is very dangerous in some cases.
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi