NullPointerException in Console's readLine()

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Published on 2009-12-16T22:34:47Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 6:22 UTC
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This:

Console c = System.console();
        String readline;
        String u = c.readLine("%s", "args");

Throws a NullPointerException. Yet the signature of the method is:

 public String readLine(String fmt, Object... args)

Why's this exception being thrown?

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