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Date: Wed,  1 Feb 2006 20:35:13 +0000
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Van Jacobsen's network stack restructure
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it could have been worse. they could have had a builtin "socket"; 
given the universe of possibly ways networking sockets could have been
introduced to bash, this is probablly better than par.

- erik

On Wed Feb  1 20:17:42 CST 2006, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> David Leimbach wrote:
> 
> > The bash shell supports /dev/tcp.... kind of evil but you can make
> > connections and send strings via file redirection with it.
> 
> 
> so, on the 'how broken is that' scale, where does this one go?
> 
> the scale, btw, goes from 1 to 11
> 
> ron