On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Brooks Davis wrote: > > For something as simple and useful as nc, I'd rather see it in the > > base system than as a port. It is useful enough to enough people that > > the extra care and feeding it will get in the base is worth the extra > > burdon it places on us to do that. It doesn't duplicate things in the > > base system, and provides functionality that's useful to many people. > > netcat does something so simple (hook some file descriptors together > until something closes them), it always suprises me to remember that > there's no library function to do this. To me that argues for being in > the base system.
It's always surprised me netcat isn't in the base system -- it's a very useful testing tool. Robert N M Watson _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
