Package: netcat Version: 1.10-32 Severity: normal netcat -e redirects standard error to the network. This applies both to the program it executes (which is quite weird and inconvenient, even considering that it can be worked around with silly file descriptor duplication and redirection shell tricks), and, even more ridiculously, to netcat itself. This behaviour seems to be seriously broken. It also results in some stderr messages being lost, since netcat attempts to display them when the connection is already closed.
On the local side: $ netcat -vve idonotexist localhost 6666 localhost [127.0.0.1] 6666 (?) open $ (Observe lack of error message and -vv statistics.) On the remote side: $ nc -vlp 6666 listening on [any] 6666 ... connect to [127.0.0.1] from localhost [127.0.0.1] 33207 exec idonotexist failed : No such file or directory $ -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages netcat depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries netcat recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
