Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:14:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: cokane@cokane.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD's netcat in base or ports? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050126121323.26815H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20050126045815.GC16997@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Brooks Davis wrote: > > For something as simple and useful as nc, I'd rather see it in the > > base system than as a port. It is useful enough to enough people that > > the extra care and feeding it will get in the base is worth the extra > > burdon it places on us to do that. It doesn't duplicate things in the > > base system, and provides functionality that's useful to many people. > > netcat does something so simple (hook some file descriptors together > until something closes them), it always suprises me to remember that > there's no library function to do this. To me that argues for being in > the base system. It's always surprised me netcat isn't in the base system -- it's a very useful testing tool. Robert N M Watson
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