Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Message-ID: <200201170240.g0H2e1h94166@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/33971; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:38:02 -0500 (EST)
<<On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:07:28 +1100 (EST), "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> said:
> /usr/bin/finger supports T/TCP, and this support may be disabled with the
> -T option. The way the T/TCP support is implemented in `finger' causes
> strange error messages ("read: Connection refused") and makes it take
> longer than usual to give these errors on what the source code terms
> "broken hosts".
Your suggestion is bogus. As the manual page clearly indicates, the
presence or absence of Transaction TCP support is not relevant to
what the finger client does. (In fact, even when T/TCP was supported
by default, finger was not able to use it because the finger protocol
requires that the server close the connection first.)
-GAWollman
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