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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>
Cc:        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:  <20010523220844.A26487@shade.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105232009590.27087-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>; from howardjp@well.com on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:10:20PM -0400
References:  <200105232304.f4NN44h17482@earth.backplane.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105232009590.27087-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>

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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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