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Subject: Re: [9fans] netcat, the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns?
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Llu=EDs Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> I hope this will not be any flame... but I hardly can believe that in a=
=20
> normal linux/bsd distribution there isn't any tool for redirecting=20
> stdin/stdout to a (new) tcp/udp connection. I think that=20
> file-descriptor-fans will know something like that...
>=20
> The most similar program I found is 'netcat', but in all the versions=20
> I've seen, it makes SO_LINGER with linger active, with a 0 seconds=20
> timeout, making it unusable for a "close() after input EOT"-behaviour.=20
> Moreover, netcat isn't a default as "ls" or "cat".
>=20
> Am I missing something? Which is the program I'm expecting to find for=20
> that redirection?
>=20
> Thanks in advance!
#!/bin/rc
port=3D''
host=3D''
proto=3D'tcp'
switch($#*) {
case 2
	host=3D$1 ; port=3D$2
case 3
	host=3D$1 ; port=3D$2 ; proto=3D$3
case *
	echo 'usage: nc ipaddr port [proto=3Dtcp]'
	exit usage
}

{
	id=3D`{read <[0=3D3]}

	echo $proto connection is $id
	echo connect $host^'!'^$port >[1=3D3]
	cat /net/$proto/$id/data &
	cat >/net/$proto/$id/data
=09
}<>[3] /net/$proto/clone

Though I'd like to see some improvements on that :-|