Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:14:02 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH] Message-ID: <20010524211402.A20014@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010523220844.A26487@shade.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:08:44PM -0500 References: <200105232304.f4NN44h17482@earth.backplane.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105232009590.27087-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> <20010523220844.A26487@shade.nectar.com>
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On Wed 2001-05-23 (22:08), Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > 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. I'm currently using pppctl for this function, in the absence of anything else in base that can do this. To good effect, I might add. ;) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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