Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp
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On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:42:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> What's the real problem with /dev/{tcp|udp}?
>
> My issue with it is having phantom files that only exist in
> one shell on the system, could clash with real files
That's reasonable.
> (although that is more or less totally unlikely). I think
> that having the shell re-implement netcat to be a violation
> of "do one thing and do it well".
Hmmm. A large, complicated shell like bash broke that stricture
long ago, no?
> I've never came across a
> script on debian or elsewhere that required this
> functionality enabled. Indeed I'm horrified to find this
> feature enabled on RHEL boxes.
>
>
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
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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