On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Mate Nagy <mn...@port70.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: >> Hi, >> your »plumb« looks like the Plan 9 plumber[0] done wrong, >> whereas your »plumbnet« is a wrong done socat[1] or >> ncat[2]. Those tools do network right and allow further >> configuration, like encryption, wrappers, filters, etc., >> which your application will only find out on purpose, if >> anyone needs it. > > apparently you haven't read any of my mails or the man pages, because > what plumb does has little relation to the plan9 plumber - and it does > it on linux where these facilities are unavailable anyway.
I just want to point out that the Plan 9 plumber works on Linux as part of Plan 9 from User Space: http://plan9.us uriel > > furthermore, plumbnet's functionality is not easily reproducible with > either socat or similar tools (this is why i wrote it in the first > place). > > Best regards, > Mate > >