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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: antho.charles@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: testing ports with ztcpsys
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[moved to -workers]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:35:47PM +0100, antho.charles@gmail.com wrote:
> So, I try with ztcp, checking $REPLY value but it doesn't work: $REPLY
> is set in the same shell than the ztcp command, so I should wait for
> the ztcp to return before I can check $REPLY.
> My question is:  
> is there a way to hack a timeout ?

Maybe we should provide support for non-blocking connection.