[Bug 211579] Remove socket support in cat(1)

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211579

Maxim Konovalov <maxim at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Maxim Konovalov <maxim at FreeBSD.org> ---
> This feature was added to cat(1) to complement inetd's ability to listen on a > UNIX domain socket [..]

Is it really correct?  I think it is just a handy way to work with unix sockets
from command line.

> Attached patch removes the support which was introduced in r83482.

What's the reason?  How does it hurt?

Should we also remove "telnet -u"?

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