From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jan 16 18:40: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C202137B416 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:40:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0H2e1h94166; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:40:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201170240.g0H2e1h94166@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Garrett Wollman Subject: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Reply-To: Garrett Wollman Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/33971; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman To: "Tim J. Robbins" 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) < 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message