From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: Fw: poor man's wget
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:57:14 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E12woOI-0006Eb-00@crucigera.fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0FVD007CJOL1JJ@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> from Peter Stephenson at "May 30, 2000 04:05:25 pm"
Peter Stephenson wrote:
>> > { echo GET /; echo; cat; } <>/dev/tcp/www.server.com/80
Having the shell give pathnames magic semantics that the rest of the
OS doesn't is evil and rude. That sort of feature should be done in a
user-space filesystem.
>This could be done without much difficulty by simplifying zftp_open and
>wiring the code into the existing redirection stuff. Unfortunately no-one
>else apart from Zefram has shown much interest in the network stuff, so
>it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
Hmm. I do have some future plans for a shell module that would do
generic socket stuff of this nature (using a more rational syntax),
though, as you say, it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
>You could probably then rewrite most if not all of zftp as shell functions.
Yes.
-zefram
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-30 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-30 12:35 Andrej Borsenkow
2000-05-30 15:05 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-05-30 15:57 ` Zefram [this message]
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