svn commit: r279603 - in head: bin/rcp usr.bin/rlogin usr.bin/rsh

[David Chisnall]

On 5 Mar 2015, at 14:13, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> 
> Not better, no.

Does telnet support creating server sockets?  No.  
Does telnet support IPsec?  No.
Does telnet let you specify the tcp window size? No.
Does telnet come with a massive selection of options for insecure login / authentication?  Yes.

Telnet is a tool for insecure remote access.  nc is a tool for creating and debugging socket connections.

> telnet more verbose (and by default and more).

'nc -v' is less to type than 'telnet' and provides *more* debugging support via -D.

> And what about 'tools, not policy'?

What about it?  We provide a tool that *is designed for creating and debugging sockets*.  You instead want a tool for insecure remote login that happens to sort-of work for creating and debugging sockets and your justification for wanting it is that you can use it for debugging sockets.

From your previous posts, you've clearly not read the nc man page and have absolutely no idea what it is capable of.  Why not spent five minutes learning about the tool that we provide that is *designed specifically for your requirements* and then suggest places where it could be improved for your needs, rather than insisting that we provide you with a hammer so that you can keep bashing screws into walls?

David