/dev/tcp support of zsh?

/dev/tcp support of zsh?

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

I decided to read some OpenBSD Journal and then I stumbled across this:

Ask undeadly: Port of ksh93?
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20040530181639&mode=expanded

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 ZSH (mod 0/4)
by Anonymous Coward (IP 206.171.8.191) on Mon May 31 20:36:50 2004 (GMT)
Hello? Just use Zsh. Zsh is the cadillac of shells, and AFAIK can do
everything ksh93 can and more (juggling and chewing gum at the same time
as well).
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Re: ZSH (mod 0/0)
by Anonymous Coward (IP 206.171.8.191) on Tue Jun 1 20:03:21 2004 (GMT)
Okay, so zsh doesn't seem to support /dev/tcp like ksh93 does. Though,
bash does include this feature.
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Re: ZSH (mod 0/0) by Anonymous Coward (IP 2001:6f8:94d:1:2c0:9fff:fe1a:6a01)
on Tue Jun 1 22:42:08 2004 (GMT)
zsh's defaults suck, and pdksh does /p/tcp: man mount_portal
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So, what developers of zsh are going to do? Or is that /dev/tcp support
in zsh already?


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Re: /dev/tcp support of zsh?

[Peter Stephenson]

Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> So, what developers of zsh are going to do? Or is that /dev/tcp support
> in zsh already?

Zsh 4.2 does this with a builtin (ztcp) in a loadable module
(zsh/net/tcp) and has a function suite built around it (man zshtcpsys),
which even has (vaguely) expect-style input handling.  Faking a system
device wasn't a great way of doing this.

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