nc (netcat) in 10.1 breaks after upgrade from 9.3

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Sun Mar 29 21:42:26 UTC 2015


Dimitry Andric wrote on 03/29/2015 23:21:
> On 29 Mar 2015, at 22:53, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:

[...]

>> It must be changed to:
>>
>> echo stats | nc -N localhost 11211
>>
>> Is it intentional?
>
> Yes, this was introduced by upstream:
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/netcat.c#rev1.111
>
> "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."

OK, thank you for your reply and sorry for the noise. :)

Miroslav Lachman


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