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From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
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Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH]
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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
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