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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: creating a socket for use with nc
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:29:56 +0200, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a program which reads from stdin. I'd like to be able to close
> the terminal it is running in and interact with it via nc -U.
> How can I create a socket which I attach to the stdin of the program?

I think what you want - I'm not sure I understood you
corretly - is a combination of a named pipe created by
the mkfifo program, and the detach program from the
ports collection. 



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