Dear Mike Frysinger, In message <200909090846.33499.vap...@gentoo.org> you wrote: > > On Friday 09 January 2009 04:38:22 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > The netcat utility likes to exit when it receives an empty packet (as it > > thinks this means EOF). This can easily occur when working with command > > line editing as this behavior will be triggered when using backspace. Or > > with tabs and command line completion. Since the local ncb util does not > > have this "feature" and it supports broadcast udp, default to using that > > rather than netcat. > > ping ... afaik, it should still apply fine
Maybe. But I still don't like the patch. Now, with the distance of a few months, I think it should be split into two parts: 1) "make a bit more robust" I agree that this is kind of a bug fix; I think it can go in. 2) "use ncb when possible" Here I really dislike the implementation of "when possible", which makes silent and undocumented assumptions about from which directory the script has to be run. I guess the "when possible" would almost always turn out to be false, so we might omit the patch alltogether, especially since it's also documented in "doc/README.NetConsole". If we add it, we should follow standard UNIX philosophy and assume that you set your PATH accordingly to reach the tools you want to use. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot