Package: netcat-openbsd
Version: 1.105-7
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The -q flag when used with the value 0 in combination with the -u flag does not
behave the same as the netcat.traditional package. The behaviour is as if the
wait value was negative: nc hangs forever waiting for EOF on stdin. This is
also different from the description in the manual page:
-q seconds
after EOF on stdin, wait the specified number of seconds and then
quit. If seconds is negative, wait forever.
To reproduce:
nc.openbsd -u -l -p 12345 &
echo test | nc.openbsd -q 0 -u localhost 12345
and compare with:
nc.traditional -u -l -p 12345 &
echo test | nc.traditional -q 0 -u localhost 12345
Kind regards,
Lefteris
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set
LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages netcat-openbsd depends on:
ii libbsd0 0.7.0-2
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u2
netcat-openbsd recommends no packages.
netcat-openbsd suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_GB.utf8",
LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.utf8",
LC_CTYPE = "en_GB.utf8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_GB.utf8",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.utf8",
LC_PAPER = "en_GB.utf8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
