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Subject: Re: [9fans] netcat, the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns?
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Tue,  4 Apr 2006 15:17:08 -0500
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> I hope this will not be any flame... but I hardly can believe that in a
> normal linux/bsd distribution there isn't any tool for redirecting
> stdin/stdout to a (new) tcp/udp connection. I think that
> file-descriptor-fans will know something like that...

we could go on for days listing completions of

    I hardly can believe that in a normal linux bsd distribution _____.

welcome to modern unix.

> The most similar program I found is 'netcat', but in all the versions
> I've seen, it makes SO_LINGER with linger active, with a 0 seconds
> timeout, making it unusable for a "close() after input EOT"-behaviour.
> Moreover, netcat isn't a default as "ls" or "cat".
>
> Am I missing something? Which is the program I'm expecting to find for
> that redirection?

i believe you are expecting to find plan9port's dial(1).

russ