/dev/tcp feature request...

2025-04-07 Thread A. James Lewis
to my knowledge, a file descriptor cannot be passed back from that subshell, which makes communicating with a remote system once the connection is open quite challenging/inconvenient. -- A. James Lewis

Re: /dev/tcp feature request...

2025-04-09 Thread A. James Lewis
y are complex, and limiting, compared to a simple TCP_TMOUT parameter or similar used similarly to "IFS"... which would make this a much more usable tool. James On Tue, 2025-04-08 at 08:54 -0500, MacBeth wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM A. James Lewis > wrote: &

Re: /dev/tcp feature request...

2025-04-10 Thread A. James Lewis
econdary. James On Thu, 2025-04-10 at 15:14 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 4/7/25 6:24 PM, A. James Lewis wrote: > > I've not been around this mailing list all too long, so I don't > > know if > > this has been debated before, but I have always attempted to avoid > &g