Re: Heads up: nc replaced by nmap ncat

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:30:35PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:27:14PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> > 2012/7/19 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > Libvirt needs to be able to run the following command
> > >
> > >   # nc -U /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
> > 
> > It could use socat:
> 
> This isn't something that can simply be fixed in libvirt in rawhide
> because you need to consider cross-version compatibility. Every
> existing deployed version of libvirt in every distro will be unable
> to connect to rawhide, even if we changed libvirt in rawhide to use
> socat.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel

I believe using a tool that works the same on every system,
such as the suggested socat, would be the right thing to do in
the future libvirt releases.

About the current breakage -- I'd prefer adding UNIX sockets
support to ncat over reviving nc.  I'll see what can be done
there.

-P

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