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

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 3/5/15 4:49 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> On 0305T1555, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 03:40:37PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
>> S> > nc(1), which is a pure socket testing tool. For telnet(1) this
>> S> > capability is a side effect.
>> S>
>> S> You don't try this in practice.
>> S> % nc zxy.spb.ru 81
>> S> %
>> S> % telnet zxy.spb.ru 81
>> S> Trying 195.70.199.98...
>> S> telnet: connect to address 195.70.199.98: Connection refused
>> S> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
>> S>
>> S> nc is not usable.
>>
>> Yes, this how unix way works. Command has return value, or
>> you can use '-v', of you want it to be chatty.
>
> Actually, not giving error message on error by default seems quite
> broken to me.  Standard UNIX utilities don't fail silently:
>

You need to read unix hater's handbook. :)

-Alfred