Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 11/23/06 07:09, Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
> Hi Klaus,
> 
>> >from the bash manpage:
>>               /dev/tcp/host/port
>>               /dev/udp/host/port
> 
> This has been discussed several times [1][2], and the outcome was every time
> that this should not be a feature of the shell, but of more specialized
> tools like nc. Use those or recompile your bash.
[snip]
> 
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/04/msg01591.html
> [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00121.html

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00204.html

    It can produce completely unexpected results.

C & Perl also can produce completely unexpected results, and C is a
security nightmare, but we don't ban/disable them in Debian.

What's the real problem with /dev/{tcp|udp}?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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