[Commotion-dev] Standalone netcat vs busybox netcat

[Will Hawkins]

Good information, Dan. I also appreciate the top-posting. Scrolling is hard.

But seriously,

In the busybox version there is an optional setting for the -w option. I
will look into whether there is support for the -z option. I will get
back to you!

Thanks again for the information!
Will

On 10/01/2013 04:55 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Commotion-dev mailing list
>> Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/commotion-dev
>>
>