[PATCH] ctdb-tests: Don't use nc -d or -w options

Amitay Isaacs amitay at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 05:48:40 UTC 2018


On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Martin Schwenke via samba-technical
<samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> nmap-ncat is used in some distributions to replace netcat.  It has a
> different meaning for these options.
>
> We can get the same effect as the current combination of -d and -w by
> piping a sleep process to nc.  Subsequent use of $! works because it
> gets the last process in pipeline.
>
> Note that redirecting from /dev/null doesn't work with some versions
> of nc.  They just exit when they get EOF.
>
> Please review and maybe push...
>
> peace & happiness,
> martin

Reviewed-by: Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>

Amitay.



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