On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:21:10AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:43:37AM +0000, Creamy wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:34:31PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > Using netcat to reliably get data is never going to be appropriate > > > > for a production system, IMHO. > > > > > > Wow. You sure do set the bar low. Probably a lot of people are glad > > > that I don't accept that kind of balony. > > > > Then make the concept work. Oh, you can't, because it's broken by design. > > > > Are you seriously suggesting that an enterprise WAN solution can be > > built on netcat? > > No, but at the same time I want my tools to be high quality and > predictable, whether I use them for diagnostics or a quick script.
I totally agree - see my later post. Maybe I was wrong to say, 'for a production system', when what I really meant was that it is wrong to use script+netcat as a generic replacement for a socket library. -- Creamy
