Re: OpenBSD's netcat in base or ports?

From: Robert Watson (rwatson_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 01/26/05

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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>

    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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