On 29 Mar 2015, at 22:53, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz>
wrote:>
> nc (netcat) in 10.1 behaves differently than it was before upgrade and
breaks our scripts for monitoring services.
>
> For example, following command works in FreeBSD 8.4 and 9.3
>
> echo stats | nc localhost 11211
>
> But it hangs in 10.1 at the END and never finishes.
>
> It must be changed to:
>
> echo stats | nc -N localhost 11211
>
> Is it intentional?
Yes, this was introduced by upstream:
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/netcat.c#rev1.111
"Don't shutdown nc(1)'s network socket when stdin closes. Matches
*Hobbit*'s
original netcat and GNU netcat; revert to old behaviour with the new -N flag
if needed."
-Dimitry
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