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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:08:44 -0500
From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>
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Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH]
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:10:20PM -0400, James Howard wrote:
> I am missing something here.  Is there a practical use for this? :)

You are not the  only one.  I can appreciate the  `neat' factor, but I
cringed  at the  commit.  It  seems like  functionality that  would be
better put in a separate utility  (or port even).  It's not like you'd
ever want to run the NVT protocol over an AF_UNIX socket.
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org

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