On 14.12.2018 06:40, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 13.12.2018 23:50, co...@sdf.org wrote: >> Hi, >> >> telnet: >> 1. terrible code, with many abstraction violations >> 2. something people expect to talk to their legacy machines, which >> nobody but them has access to.
Actually telnet is used actively by modern evb !x86 boards to access firmware console or serial port. Without naming them, this includes high-end aarch64 servers (I used telnet to work with them). >> 3. common use case is served by netcat, already in base. >> 4. too much superfluous functionality. >> >> Let's pull it out as a package, the alternative being breaking >> functionality for the four remaining users. >> >> send hate mail my way. >> > > I'm against. telnet is useful for networking. It's used in embedded, > virtualization (qemu, simh, ...) and some public services. >
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
