Without thinking too hard, I thought that was what the listener/server-end netcat was supposed to do ... quit when the connection to it dies ...

I suppose you could always respawn the listener repeatedly from the shell with "while :" or something ...

-jim

On Aug 12, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

The current netcat/kernel/??? which I have decides to terminate as soon
as one of the two transfer directions closes. As one usually only ever
copies files in one direction at a time, this makes it impossible to
read /dev/null in the unneeded direction, which in turn makes it
impossible to background the job ("tty read - suspended"). Very
irritating. Can anyone think of some trick to restore previous
behaviour? There's /dev/null and /dev/zero, but no
/dev/readnothingnoteven-EOF.

Thanks,

Volker

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