On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:23:33AM -0500, Allan Jude wrote: > It was pointed out in a FreeBSD PR that one of the the nc(1) man page > examples no longer works. FreeBSD imports OpenBSD netcat. > > With a commit on Wed Mar 20 09:27:56 2013 UTC nc.1 rev 1.62: > > Don't shutdown nc(1)'s network socket when stdin closes. Matches > *Hobbit*'s original netcat and GNU netcat; revert to old behaviour with > the new -N flag if needed. After much discussion with otto deraadt tedu > and Martin Pelikan. > ok deraadt@ > > > the new -N flag was introduced to get the old auto-shutdown behaviour. > One of the examples depends on his behaviour to work correctly. The > attached patch updates the man page to include the -N flag in that example > > > FreeBSD PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/185353 > > > -- > Allan Jude
right, just fixed it (-r1.66 this side). thanks for the mail, jmc > Index: usr.bin/nc/nc.1 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/nc/nc.1,v > retrieving revision 1.65 > diff -u -p -r1.65 nc.1 > --- usr.bin/nc/nc.1 20 Aug 2013 21:05:20 -0000 1.65 > +++ usr.bin/nc/nc.1 10 Feb 2014 16:16:43 -0000 > @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ Using a second machine, connect to the l > .Nm > process, feeding it the file which is to be transferred: > .Pp > -.Dl $ nc host.example.com 1234 \*(Lt filename.in > +.Dl $ nc -N host.example.com 1234 \*(Lt filename.in > .Pp > After the file has been transferred, the connection will close automatically. > .Sh TALKING TO SERVERS
