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Cc: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Recent nc(1) changes
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On 15/04/2010 21:48, Xin LI wrote:
> On 2010/04/15 12:41, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> On 15/04/2010 21:24, Xin LI wrote:
>>> ...
> 
>> I'd say that the data loss (~1%) when I tried to use nc with UNIX sockets
>> (on both ends) is much more troublesome than your changes.
>> Even when I used lockf to synchronize socket access this loss occured
>> and I have fallen back to using files for messaging in my scripts.
> 
> Data loss?  Sounds like a bug to me.  Do you have any reproduction scripts?

No, but I'll put something together over the weekend if you want to
look at something.

Regards

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