[Commotion-dev] Standalone netcat vs busybox netcat

[Dan Staples]

I switched to the non-busybox version when I was building the commotion
apps portal since the LuCI apps controller uses nc -w -z to check for
app connectivity, and I believe the busybox version lacks either the -w
or -z option.

On 10/01/2013 12:51 PM, Will Hawkins wrote:
> Hey all!
> 
> I was just wondering if there is a particular reason we are using
> standalone netcat in the OpenWRT universe instead of the one available
> through busybox?
> 
> If there is no particular reason for sticking with a standalone version,
> I recommend that we move to the one available through busybox. In the
> busybox version, the '-e' flag is a compile-time option that is disabled
> by default. So, just by switching to this version, we could close out
> issue 21: https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-openwrt/issues/21
> 
> If that is not an option, disabling '-e' support in netcat will be more
> difficult. Not impossible, just more difficult. Before I started on that
> work I thought I would check on the easier option first!
> 
> Will
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